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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
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. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
guy
Flag
Cave
pied
2. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
obtain
Carp
steep
3. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
temper
Root
appropriate
wag
4. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Embroider
Compromise
table
Rank
5. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
stand
fell
Relief
Qualify
6. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
stand
guy
Lumber
intimate
7. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Court
guy
Root
exact
8. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
brook
Cavalier
stand
essay
9. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
scurvy
Sanction
Root
Rail
10. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Elliptical
Eclipse
prize
Staple
11. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Qualify
arrest/arresting
mince
Crop
12. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Hail
Channel
table
Lumber
13. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
wag
Channel
Alien
damp
14. (v) - To shock or stun
Relief
fell
Grate
Sustain
15. (v.) - To rummage around - search
rail
exact
Root
singular
16. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
appropriate
prize
Channel
17. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Precipitate
quail
Flag
Hail
18. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
ford
Rail
list
stand
19. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Flag
Badger
Relief
nice
20. 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.
die
pedestrian
Compromise
Stock
21. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
arrest/arresting
Alien
list
Slight
22. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Slight
Bridge
pluck
fell
23. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
list
Milk
Sustain
24. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Sanction
Bridge
wag
august
25. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
quail
ford
rent
court
26. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Floor
Qualify
wag
Check
27. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
Sustain
Bent !
Stem
28. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
arrest/arresting
waffle
Grave/Gravity
Bent
29. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
temper
Elliptical
Embroider
flip
30. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Elliptical
nice
Stem
singular
31. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Floor
stand
scurvy
Bridge
32. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Check
Bent
Precipitate
temper
33. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Check
exact
Pore
Eclipse
34. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Sustain
Grill
die
consequential
35. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
flag
Precipitate
Spare
Rail
36. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
Severe
essay
Subscribe
37. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Eclipse
obtain
Buffet
consequential
38. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Compromise
guy
obtain
39. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Check
Grave/Gravity
Crop
Carp
40. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
table
prize
Police
appropriate
41. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
waffle
Currency
fell
Milk
42. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
Check
qualify
Hail
43. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Modest
Bent !
Cave
appropriate
44. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
nice
Bent !
Embroider
45. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Negotiate
steep
Mint
fell
46. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
steep
die
Buffet
prize
47. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
Slight
stand
Mint
48. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Embroider
occult
fell
Grave/Gravity
49. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
Grave/Gravity
Grate
Elliptical
50. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
broach
Rank
arrest/arresting
Buffet