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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. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Cave
Floor
broach
Channel
2. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
prize
broach
Rank
wag
3. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
Sustain
brook
court
4. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Bent
intimate
Check
Cavalier
5. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
exact
steep
Milk
Compromise
6. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
court
guy
Root
7. (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.
august
Constitution
court
Cavalier
8. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Crop
Sustain
Cave
9. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
strut
Constitution
Elliptical
Hail
10. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Carp
damp
rent
singular
11. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
personification
Crop
Spare
occult
12. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
court
meet
negotiate
Gravity
13. 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.
Root
exact
guy
Negotiate
14. 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.
pedestrian
qualify
color
Grill
15. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
rent
wag
pluck
16. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Rank
consequential
Root
august
17. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Spare
rail
consequential
table
18. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Severe
Crop
temper
Stock
19. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
pine
Currency
fell
meet
20. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
Slight
Constitution
ford
21. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
color
sap
Constitution
22. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
rent
obtain
Bent !
mince
23. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
flip
Mint
table
august
24. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Root
Modest
Pore
25. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
waffle
negotiate
arrest/arresting
Bent
26. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
august
mince
Negotiate
Discriminating
27. 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
Rank
ford
Root
28. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Milk
Stem
Eclipse
Sustain
29. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Eclipse
rail
Police
nice
30. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
broach
Lumber
die
grouse
31. 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.
Sanction
mince
arrest/arresting
meet
32. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
list
Spare
stand
august
33. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
Channel
occult
pine
34. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
essay
meet
brook
Cavalier
35. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Gravity
fell
Flag
Currency
36. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
qualify
Channel
Bent
Relief
37. (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.
Sanction
Check
Police
Bent
38. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
alloy
guy
pine
Rank
39. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Spare
personification
Buffet
Affect/Affected
40. 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
rent
Slight
die
41. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Precipitate
pied
Mint
obtain
42. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
Court
pluck
Channel
43. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
qualify
Badger
scurvy
Bent
44. To soften; moderate. Mr. King - after forbidding students to wear shirst with scenes of violence tempered his remarks by saying that they did not apply to boys who never wore hoodies or shirts with offensive militaristic designs to school
Negotiate
Subscribe
Temper
Root
45. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Grate
Lumber
august
color
46. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Bent
ford
Currency
Slight
47. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
rail
intimate
Bridge
48. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
quail
Compromise
pine
Bent
49. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Currency
Compromise
Qualify
Rank
50. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
grouse
rail
obtain
trenchant