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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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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. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Alien
grouse
personification
Bent !
2. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
exact
brook
scurvy
3. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Currency
Grave/Gravity
strut
august
4. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rail
Stock
Grave/Gravity
Temper
5. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
Grill
Subscribe
appropriate
6. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
stand
Qualify
Bent
Alien
7. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Hail
Stem
pine
temper
8. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
Sustain
prize
Badger
9. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Grate
Alien
pluck
Gravity
10. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Lumber
scurvy
Crop
Rank
11. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Bent
scurvy
Stem
Elliptical
12. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Stem
waffle
guy
damp
13. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Temper
Cave
damp
meet
14. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
exact
Carp
pine
15. (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
trenchant
broach
waffle
16. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Relief
Grave/Gravity
Channel
mince
17. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
lumber
Discriminating
Root
table
18. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
damp
waffle
trenchant
die
19. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Milk
die
Bent
Sustain
20. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
table
august
prize
Police
21. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
die
singular
pine
22. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
exact
Coin
Carp
pluck
23. To demand - call for - require - take. Our English teachers demands were exacting. The pressure of public speaking exacted a tremendous amount of vitality from George VI.
Bent !
exact
Police
august
24. (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience) The young singer stayed on stage after the applause died down hoping to milk more even more recognition from the audience.
Buffet
Milk
Temper
fell
25. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Modest
Alien
Root
ford
26. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Rake
broach
brook
rent
27. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Badger
meet
Stem
Currency
28. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Stem
quail
occult
list
29. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
grouse
fell
Subscribe
Elliptical
30. (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
grouse
Crop
Cave
31. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
exact
Slight
Channel
Elliptical
32. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Hail
Negotiate
Sanction
Check
33. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Badger
prize
Severe
waffle
34. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Bent !
Coin
Qualify
die
35. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Bent
Grill
Rank
rent
36. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
waffle
appropriate
table
Lumber
37. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
color
Lumber
Police
Spare
38. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Elliptical
Grave/Gravity
Mint
Hail
39. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
flag
personification
essay
Stock
40. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
consequential
pine
Staple
lumber
41. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Lumber
Temper
Flag
Subscribe
42. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
table
temper
prize
Compromise
43. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
rent
exact
Buffet
color
44. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
wag
color
qualify
Court
45. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
exact
Coin
Slight
court
46. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Cave
pied
prize
rent
47. 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 -
Eclipse
Court
table
appropriate
48. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Discriminating
broach
quail
obtain
49. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
Rail
list
flag
50. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Crop
august
Buffet
court