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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. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Relief
damp
stand
obtain
2. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
essay
fell
consequential
Channel
3. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Police
Spare
broach
Subscribe
4. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
wag
Badger
Coin
Court
5. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
occult
Grill
exact
pine
6. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Floor
Rake
Discriminating
waffle
7. 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.
intimate
Sanction
arrest/arresting
Milk
8. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
singular
occult
personification
Check
9. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Staple
Carp
Qualify
ford
10. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
Crop
flag
mince
11. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
scurvy
Elliptical
rail
meet
12. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
occult
Badger
appropriate
mince
13. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
list
mince
Bent
Carp
14. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Relief
list
Mint
Eclipse
15. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
wag
personification
intimate
16. 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.
Qualify
Bent
die
pedestrian
17. 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.
list
exact
Mint
Subscribe
18. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Qualify
Cavalier
pedestrian
Subscribe
19. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
scurvy
Channel
Bridge
Root
20. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Lumber
essay
color
august
21. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
steep
ford
wag
grouse
22. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
occult
flip
Constitution
Buffet
23. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Grave/Gravity
grouse
Temper
Crop
24. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Compromise
strut
grouse
Stock
25. (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.
Police
stand
intimate
Sustain
26. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Severe
Elliptical
Subscribe
damp
27. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
Negotiate
occult
Currency
28. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Pore
appropriate
rent
rail
29. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Floor
Bridge
Grate
Affect/Affected
30. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
court
Rake
mince
lumber
31. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
brook
Slight
Milk
Carp
32. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Pore
color
appropriate
Coin
33. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
essay
temper
Relief
Coin
34. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Police
occult
guy
quail
35. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
rail
Bridge
Severe
36. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Root
grouse
ford
Eclipse
37. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Temper
Bent !
qualify
scurvy
38. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
pied
Root
stand
Stem
39. (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.
pied
Milk
Bridge
damp
40. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
court
essay
Carp
Pore
41. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
personification
rent
pluck
Alien
42. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
exact
quail
die
pedestrian
43. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rail
Coin
Affect/Affected
sap
44. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Elliptical
temper
Compromise
Sustain
45. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
waffle
scurvy
negotiate
Staple
46. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
waffle
negotiate
temper
Rake
47. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
guy
Constitution
Negotiate
personification
48. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
grouse
fell
Eclipse
Elliptical
49. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
waffle
pied
guy
Root
50. 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 -
Grave/Gravity
Pore
occult
Court