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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. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
Sanction
Flag
quail
2. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Lumber
Floor
Currency
sap
3. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Subscribe
pluck
list
grouse
4. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
die
Lumber
Rail
Elliptical
5. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Police
august
meet
table
6. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Subscribe
Court
Police
list
7. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Eclipse
Bridge
quail
8. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
rail
Mint
Sanction
stand
9. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
Discriminating
Elliptical
grouse
10. 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 -
Court
Rank
Negotiate
flip
11. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
Cave
nice
wag
12. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
Bent !
Rank
list
13. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Elliptical
flip
rail
guy
14. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Cave
obtain
Rank
singular
15. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Affect/Affected
sap
color
court
16. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
fell
Milk
Modest
essay
17. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
brook
pedestrian
Severe
18. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
pluck
trenchant
Channel
Badger
19. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Floor
Severe
qualify
wag
20. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
prize
Embroider
table
Buffet
21. (n. - adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior. The trouble with Jill is that her behavior is so affected that it is impossible to determine her real personality
august
Affect/Affected
Eclipse
Staple
22. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Compromise
Stock
lumber
steep
23. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
rail
quail
Crop
brook
24. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
sap
pied
qualify
Carp
25. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Court
Hail
intimate
exact
26. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
strut
Grate
prize
Grill
27. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Grate
consequential
Spare
Sustain
28. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
obtain
Mint
broach
arrest/arresting
29. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
pine
Buffet
essay
obtain
30. (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
Qualify
arrest/arresting
Hail
31. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
list
nice
Compromise
Staple
32. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
prize
Carp
Badger
scurvy
33. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
wag
Modest
meet
Badger
34. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Qualify
Rail
intimate
brook
35. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Floor
Rank
essay
lumber
36. 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
Hail
quail
Cave
37. (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.
Subscribe
Constitution
Milk
trenchant
38. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
grouse
Bent !
Rank
Slight
39. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Bent !
Buffet
Alien
fell
40. (v.) - To rummage around - search
appropriate
Bent
august
Root
41. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
ford
Rail
Gravity
Slight
42. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
august
Check
intimate
waffle
43. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Sustain
Root
Compromise
Bent
44. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Cave
Lumber
flip
Subscribe
45. (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.
Currency
grouse
Police
Sustain
46. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
august
occult
Channel
temper
47. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
mince
essay
damp
Relief
48. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
sap
scurvy
pine
49. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Coin
negotiate
table
august
50. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
sap
Lumber
Modest
Qualify