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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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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. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
rent
quail
color
intimate
2. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
rail
Carp
Rank
Modest
3. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
Subscribe
Temper
prize
4. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Affect/Affected
Rail
Alien
table
5. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Currency
Slight
Rank
arrest/arresting
6. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
intimate
qualify
temper
7. (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.
meet
august
Mint
occult
8. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
alloy
Grill
sap
court
9. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
scurvy
court
temper
waffle
10. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Spare
personification
intimate
lumber
11. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
ford
stand
Crop
Elliptical
12. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
trenchant
die
pluck
Rail
13. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Elliptical
appropriate
Badger
Coin
14. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
exact
waffle
Coin
consequential
15. (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.
Milk
Currency
Bridge
Negotiate
16. 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
damp
Stem
Mint
17. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
Precipitate
Coin
Sanction
18. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Check
Coin
pine
ford
19. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Floor
stand
list
flag
20. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Eclipse
lumber
august
personification
21. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
mince
Bridge
pluck
Spare
22. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
pine
temper
rent
Elliptical
23. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Grill
personification
Lumber
Gravity
24. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
Grill
occult
Slight
25. 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.
Sustain
pedestrian
Staple
Currency
26. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
damp
Modest
Coin
27. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
waffle
Cave
rent
obtain
28. (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
fell
pine
Rake
Affect/Affected
29. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
pluck
table
Cave
30. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
alloy
occult
august
meet
31. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
Police
flip
Carp
32. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Bent
Modest
prize
pedestrian
33. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
waffle
consequential
Slight
rail
34. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
nice
strut
occult
grouse
35. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Discriminating
steep
essay
Grate
36. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
die
Currency
Spare
fell
37. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Alien
quail
Crop
Negotiate
38. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Spare
Grill
Currency
grouse
39. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Floor
Sustain
Eclipse
Cavalier
40. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
Hail
Milk
waffle
41. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
arrest/arresting
grouse
brook
Embroider
42. 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.
Precipitate
negotiate
arrest/arresting
Grate
43. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Bent
rail
Bent !
Channel
44. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
brook
list
intimate
Grate
45. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Lumber
Channel
grouse
negotiate
46. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
court
broach
Affect/Affected
47. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Flag
alloy
exact
Grave/Gravity
48. 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.
trenchant
alloy
rail
Gravity
49. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Constitution
flag
steep
Pore
50. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
list
damp
nice
Rail