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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. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Buffet
stand
Flag
Rake
2. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Bent
grouse
Eclipse
Mint
3. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Lumber
list
quail
flag
4. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Lumber
meet
Grill
wag
5. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
mince
Badger
grouse
6. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
scurvy
strut
Constitution
fell
7. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
strut
Floor
Coin
Rank
8. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
sap
Embroider
broach
Rail
9. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
essay
Discriminating
Floor
grouse
10. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Grill
Staple
Grave/Gravity
sap
11. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Staple
Spare
damp
exact
12. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Channel
exact
guy
Cavalier
13. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
fell
Hail
meet
Grate
14. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
nice
Constitution
pluck
temper
15. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
die
Relief
flag
Spare
16. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
appropriate
ford
table
consequential
17. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
brook
die
strut
Root
18. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Bridge
Stock
Crop
broach
19. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Bent !
ford
personification
20. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Relief
color
Milk
ford
21. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Bridge
Staple
strut
die
22. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Negotiate
prize
essay
grouse
23. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
prize
Alien
Bent !
consequential
24. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Qualify
Modest
Staple
Bent !
25. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
obtain
Stock
Constitution
26. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Spare
Discriminating
trenchant
Bent
27. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
table
Bridge
Qualify
Subscribe
28. 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.
alloy
die
waffle
Sanction
29. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Sanction
Alien
trenchant
flip
30. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
damp
list
august
Badger
31. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Compromise
Precipitate
grouse
personification
32. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
singular
guy
die
33. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
Grave/Gravity
damp
rail
34. (v) - To shock or stun
Sustain
Grate
Crop
prize
35. (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.
Milk
Rank
scurvy
Alien
36. 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.
Temper
ford
pedestrian
Badger
37. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Hail
Milk
Check
Buffet
38. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
appropriate
Bent !
singular
mince
39. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Elliptical
meet
nice
Precipitate
40. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Cavalier
Embroider
Negotiate
intimate
41. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Cave
Flag
Police
Grave/Gravity
42. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
wag
court
ford
scurvy
43. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Mint
brook
august
exact
44. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
exact
Currency
Slight
Precipitate
45. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Discriminating
Rank
Channel
Court
46. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
stand
die
august
Cave
47. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
pedestrian
Stock
court
Qualify
48. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Precipitate
appropriate
Lumber
Cavalier
49. (n.) - The physical character - health of a body. I am very lucky because I have a very healthy constitution - so have never missed a day of school.
Lumber
Channel
Constitution
ford
50. 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.
exact
Stem
arrest/arresting
Police