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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. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
rail
august
Lumber
Subscribe
2. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Cave
Rail
ford
Relief
3. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
appropriate
Cavalier
prize
quail
4. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
waffle
Pore
appropriate
intimate
5. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
color
qualify
Rail
nice
6. 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
Badger
Relief
Elliptical
7. (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.
Compromise
Qualify
Mint
waffle
8. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Court
Police
rail
Lumber
9. 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.
ford
alloy
Bridge
personification
10. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Constitution
qualify
sap
Negotiate
11. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Grate
Root
Qualify
12. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
essay
Alien
Temper
personification
13. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
personification
Elliptical
Stem
scurvy
14. (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.
Bridge
flip
exact
rail
15. Ordinary. Please don't wear the solid red tie; it is so pedestrian. Please don't order a hotdog at the restaurant - it's so pedestrian.
lumber
rent
pedestrian
trenchant
16. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Milk
Sustain
wag
meet
17. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
rent
Root
obtain
18. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
mince
Check
steep
Floor
19. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Pore
Rail
Bent !
Crop
20. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Gravity
fell
rent
Cavalier
21. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
Coin
Sanction
Sustain
22. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Discriminating
waffle
Slight
pied
23. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Milk
Precipitate
august
Buffet
24. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
rail
prize
grouse
nice
25. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
fell
Coin
scurvy
Buffet
26. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
flag
obtain
broach
Lumber
27. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Eclipse
flip
Hail
Coin
28. (v.) - To rummage around - search
brook
sap
table
Root
29. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
singular
Lumber
Staple
Grave/Gravity
30. (v) - To shock or stun
Court
Staple
Root
Grate
31. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Discriminating
Hail
qualify
Spare
32. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
occult
intimate
meet
Root
33. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
quail
color
Subscribe
Mint
34. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
obtain
pied
Court
lumber
35. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Constitution
Flag
die
obtain
36. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
arrest/arresting
meet
guy
Temper
37. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Temper
color
temper
Buffet
38. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Subscribe
Slight
Compromise
waffle
39. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Cave
Floor
strut
Hail
40. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
exact
Modest
Grate
ford
41. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Spare
Discriminating
mince
rent
42. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
negotiate
Court
Pore
Spare
43. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
steep
rent
damp
Bent
44. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
pluck
court
wag
Rake
45. 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
flag
Buffet
Sanction
46. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
flip
scurvy
Grill
47. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Grill
Flag
Check
Pore
48. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Mint
prize
Check
Rank
49. 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 -
Stock
Compromise
Court
steep
50. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Rail
Milk
Crop
pied