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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Court
Cavalier
Pore
Coin
2. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Pore
august
Court
Grave/Gravity
3. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
pine
broach
exact
alloy
4. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
Hail
pluck
mince
5. (n. - v.) - A factory where money is produced / To produce money also excellent condition Mint produced pennies. When they are minted - they are in mint condition.
Currency
personification
Spare
Mint
6. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Staple
list
Buffet
prize
7. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
arrest/arresting
qualify
Rank
obtain
8. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
flag
intimate
Bent
personification
9. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
Pore
prize
Severe
10. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Lumber
Grill
wag
Rail
11. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
stand
personification
lumber
Buffet
12. (v) - To shock or stun
Rail
Grill
Grate
Channel
13. (n.) - The physical character - health of a body. I am very lucky because I have a very healthy constitution - so have never missed a day of school.
alloy
Sustain
essay
Constitution
14. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Sanction
Spare
wag
mince
15. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Discriminating
table
fell
Rake
16. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Compromise
singular
grouse
Cavalier
17. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
pedestrian
Mint
august
18. To soften; moderate. Mr. King - after forbidding students to wear shirst with scenes of violence tempered his remarks by saying that they did not apply to boys who never wore hoodies or shirts with offensive militaristic designs to school
Temper
ford
Pore
Channel
19. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
scurvy
mince
Sustain
Precipitate
20. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
color
Affect/Affected
Check
21. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
court
Root
Crop
Rail
22. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Grill
Bent
Severe
sap
23. (v.) - To join two things together The wellness club and the athletic department were bridged my their mutual interest in having Hackley serve healthy food.
temper
color
Alien
Bridge
24. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Bent !
brook
Sanction
meet
25. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
singular
Sustain
stand
Sanction
26. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
rent
Constitution
stand
brook
27. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
ford
Floor
grouse
Modest
28. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
mince
Pore
steep
broach
29. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
fell
intimate
singular
Coin
30. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
nice
ford
court
Milk
31. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Currency
Slight
qualify
Rake
32. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
mince
Police
Rank
appropriate
33. To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention. I am afraid my brother is case of arrested development. Her beauty was arresting. His Chaucer lecture was arresting.
Bent
Mint
exact
arrest/arresting
34. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
strut
pied
Stock
die
35. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Pore
august
Check
Precipitate
36. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
pine
Sustain
Channel
Elliptical
37. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
pedestrian
strut
Severe
Badger
38. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
wag
prize
exact
Court
39. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Modest
wag
Police
Temper
40. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
list
Compromise
Slight
wag
41. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Precipitate
essay
Elliptical
steep
42. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Alien
waffle
Rank
pine
43. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
mince
Flag
Bent
table
44. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
obtain
lumber
Eclipse
Rank
45. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
pedestrian
Qualify
trenchant
wag
46. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Gravity
Police
appropriate
ford
47. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
quail
nice
essay
Lumber
48. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Buffet
Milk
Crop
49. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
negotiate
Court
die
Currency
50. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
ford
Severe
color
Embroider