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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 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.
Pore
Crop
Milk
flag
2. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Gravity
Qualify
pedestrian
Stem
3. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
flip
Eclipse
Bent !
Grave/Gravity
4. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Bent !
Negotiate
Elliptical
Gravity
5. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Stem
temper
grouse
quail
6. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Rake
Pore
exact
intimate
7. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Staple
Rank
Pore
Cave
8. 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 -
Staple
Negotiate
Lumber
Court
9. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
brook
Eclipse
Staple
Carp
10. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
guy
rail
Cave
11. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Gravity
color
Eclipse
Rail
12. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
waffle
rent
pine
13. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Subscribe
strut
Milk
flag
14. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
color
Check
Severe
table
15. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Bent !
personification
flip
Compromise
16. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
arrest/arresting
Discriminating
Cave
mince
17. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
brook
rail
Badger
18. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Elliptical
Gravity
ford
Rail
19. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Elliptical
brook
intimate
Embroider
20. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Flag
wag
arrest/arresting
pluck
21. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
Eclipse
grouse
alloy
22. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
flag
Bridge
Qualify
nice
23. 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.
quail
Check
Coin
arrest/arresting
24. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
sap
Subscribe
broach
Sanction
25. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
scurvy
Court
Negotiate
26. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Buffet
Compromise
table
flip
27. 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.
Check
Stem
pedestrian
strut
28. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
flip
Rail
Eclipse
grouse
29. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Severe
Rail
pine
ford
30. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
qualify
stand
Compromise
guy
31. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Bent !
Staple
pine
pluck
32. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Rail
essay
Milk
Elliptical
33. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
Grill
august
Negotiate
34. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
trenchant
Sustain
die
Rake
35. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Hail
Sustain
list
Stem
36. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Pore
brook
die
waffle
37. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Mint
Channel
sap
Root
38. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Badger
Floor
singular
Milk
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.
Mint
alloy
stand
Grate
40. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
Bent
sap
Check
41. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Bridge
meet
rent
Compromise
42. (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.
Stem
Embroider
Flag
Mint
43. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Cave
Check
Stock
color
44. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
guy
Currency
Crop
exact
45. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Sustain
Bridge
Stock
color
46. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
consequential
steep
singular
Rank
47. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Stock
exact
Channel
wag
48. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Floor
Eclipse
Buffet
fell
49. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Rake
damp
occult
Gravity
50. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
meet
Stem
Check
list