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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. 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.
Severe
Carp
brook
pedestrian
2. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Check
Elliptical
pine
nice
3. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
Relief
Buffet
qualify
4. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
exact
personification
Cavalier
table
5. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
flip
Precipitate
Embroider
pedestrian
6. (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.
pluck
Police
scurvy
rent
7. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
prize
Bridge
scurvy
Precipitate
8. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
pine
qualify
Sustain
9. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
negotiate
nice
Grate
flip
10. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Alien
Gravity
Sustain
pedestrian
11. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
wag
Rank
Eclipse
Hail
12. (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.
Floor
consequential
Mint
flag
13. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Mint
die
damp
fell
14. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Milk
Rank
Alien
Pore
15. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Grave/Gravity
Grill
Temper
meet
16. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Precipitate
pine
fell
wag
17. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Grave/Gravity
Sanction
singular
scurvy
18. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Bridge
Crop
Compromise
19. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Milk
Elliptical
Lumber
Discriminating
20. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
nice
Constitution
Affect/Affected
21. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
pedestrian
Eclipse
list
22. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
alloy
Bent !
pedestrian
consequential
23. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Flag
grouse
flag
fell
24. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
qualify
Check
temper
25. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
personification
damp
Precipitate
wag
26. (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.
pied
Milk
Discriminating
Subscribe
27. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
rent
Subscribe
occult
stand
28. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Precipitate
qualify
Check
obtain
29. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Court
Spare
Staple
Grill
30. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
intimate
Rail
Sanction
court
31. 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.
Compromise
Coin
exact
Root
32. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
table
temper
guy
Root
33. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
die
Crop
Buffet
Discriminating
34. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
Bent !
Discriminating
Rail
35. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Negotiate
Alien
personification
Stem
36. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Staple
Bent !
Alien
nice
37. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
waffle
Negotiate
pluck
august
38. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
Gravity
mince
exact
39. 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.
Flag
Sustain
alloy
Buffet
40. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Precipitate
Badger
essay
brook
41. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Severe
Affect/Affected
Temper
Spare
42. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Bridge
stand
list
Severe
43. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
rent
Affect/Affected
Subscribe
Bridge
44. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
pine
waffle
Channel
Slight
45. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
pluck
Stem
meet
46. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Bent !
prize
Grave/Gravity
Bridge
47. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
color
Negotiate
Crop
pluck
48. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Sustain
Buffet
meet
Badger
49. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
personification
Sanction
rail
Root
50. (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
Stem
temper
negotiate