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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 wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
strut
ford
Mint
Temper
2. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Check
Pore
Cavalier
Currency
3. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
damp
Rake
pine
Discriminating
4. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Stem
Rank
list
Stock
5. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
alloy
Compromise
occult
Stock
6. (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.
mince
Bridge
Court
august
7. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
Milk
Sustain
Bent
8. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Compromise
ford
Grate
9. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
arrest/arresting
wag
waffle
Embroider
10. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
table
essay
Modest
Floor
11. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
Alien
Elliptical
Floor
12. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
court
Severe
prize
damp
13. 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
Rank
Sanction
Temper
guy
14. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Bridge
Grill
temper
rent
15. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Grave/Gravity
prize
brook
Bent
16. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Lumber
Sustain
damp
Flag
17. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Negotiate
color
guy
Sustain
18. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
pedestrian
Severe
personification
Rail
19. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
pluck
flip
occult
sap
20. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
scurvy
Court
nice
21. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Alien
nice
Cave
Subscribe
22. (v.) - To rummage around - search
table
arrest/arresting
Root
damp
23. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
personification
guy
meet
24. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Alien
pied
die
Bent !
25. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
august
strut
Check
Crop
26. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Buffet
Rake
Alien
Elliptical
27. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
arrest/arresting
personification
Hail
28. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
broach
Grate
personification
list
29. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Hail
guy
Badger
Pore
30. 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
Carp
Spare
Bridge
31. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Sanction
stand
pine
Badger
32. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Root
Bent
Stem
Constitution
33. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
august
lumber
Rank
Crop
34. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
pied
Staple
Sanction
august
35. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Grave/Gravity
august
trenchant
36. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
negotiate
strut
quail
broach
37. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
brook
Bridge
Floor
intimate
38. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
Buffet
Channel
Root
39. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
flag
grouse
Bent !
Rank
40. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
Stem
grouse
Channel
41. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
die
flag
pied
wag
42. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
stand
arrest/arresting
Lumber
43. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
qualify
color
singular
44. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Cavalier
Check
Subscribe
essay
45. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Grill
Coin
essay
Elliptical
46. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Gravity
damp
personification
waffle
47. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Negotiate
appropriate
fell
sap
48. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
sap
Milk
Rail
49. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
alloy
Affect/Affected
pied
Severe
50. 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.
consequential
Spare
table
alloy