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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Alien
Flag
damp
essay
2. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
Badger
pied
Milk
3. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
flip
broach
qualify
mince
4. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Grave/Gravity
Constitution
brook
Root
5. To co-mingle - to debase by mirroring with something inferior. I am afraid the bowl is made of an alloy - not sterling as we thought.
guy
alloy
Currency
Crop
6. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
pedestrian
Qualify
intimate
7. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Relief
Precipitate
Buffet
Check
8. (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.
arrest/arresting
Bridge
Coin
Qualify
9. (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.
Mint
Police
Grill
brook
10. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
rent
Buffet
Bent !
stand
11. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
occult
personification
Relief
pluck
12. (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.
Sanction
Rail
Constitution
Embroider
13. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
mince
Mint
arrest/arresting
die
14. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
alloy
Staple
mince
negotiate
15. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
prize
Coin
Grave/Gravity
alloy
16. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
qualify
Gravity
Embroider
Milk
17. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
Affect/Affected
Cavalier
Rail
18. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Staple
steep
meet
pluck
19. (v) - To shock or stun
Stock
Grate
broach
Severe
20. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Buffet
damp
Lumber
lumber
21. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
pine
grouse
Slight
essay
22. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
fell
quail
Alien
Eclipse
23. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Badger
die
pluck
Grill
24. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
rail
fell
Milk
brook
25. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Negotiate
fell
Bridge
26. To attempt to gain the favor or support of a person or group - The politician courted support for the new bill he wanted to pass -
Court
negotiate
essay
Pore
27. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
negotiate
flip
Precipitate
meet
28. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Embroider
Channel
Discriminating
obtain
29. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
lumber
Badger
waffle
30. (n. - adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior. The trouble with Jill is that her behavior is so affected that it is impossible to determine her real personality
list
Affect/Affected
Badger
Buffet
31. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
Channel
Milk
Staple
32. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
Rake
wag
Pore
33. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Relief
Bent !
essay
Bent
34. 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
negotiate
Badger
Temper
Negotiate
35. (v.) - To regulate - control. Who is going to police the dark alley to make sure it is safe for the young children who pass by every day.
Rail
fell
Subscribe
Police
36. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Bent !
alloy
table
Constitution
37. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Eclipse
consequential
mince
quail
38. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
negotiate
Coin
Cavalier
Constitution
39. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
color
obtain
alloy
Bent
40. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Precipitate
alloy
Staple
sap
41. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
obtain
Elliptical
Rail
flip
42. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
pied
court
Crop
43. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Carp
Alien
Cave
Crop
44. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
sap
color
arrest/arresting
45. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Discriminating
personification
flip
Pore
46. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
guy
Stock
Negotiate
Relief
47. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Buffet
guy
consequential
Alien
48. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
obtain
pine
color
Coin
49. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Sanction
Hail
pine
Cave
50. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
flag
Crop
Rank
table