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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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1. (v) - To shock or stun
court
Grate
Court
wag
2. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Grill
Court
Severe
Rake
3. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Channel
Embroider
Spare
4. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Spare
Hail
Discriminating
strut
5. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Alien
Grill
Hail
meet
6. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
flag
Constitution
obtain
scurvy
7. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
personification
singular
Elliptical
Crop
8. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Root
wag
Alien
Currency
9. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
Carp
intimate
brook
scurvy
10. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Discriminating
obtain
table
august
11. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
flag
Sustain
Coin
12. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
Affect/Affected
Elliptical
quail
sap
13. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Mint
guy
Currency
intimate
14. (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.
Constitution
waffle
rail
lumber
15. 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.
Channel
arrest/arresting
qualify
consequential
16. (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.
Court
Bridge
Spare
prize
17. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Grate
wag
Carp
rent
18. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
arrest/arresting
Temper
Milk
19. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
nice
Lumber
table
Discriminating
20. 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
pluck
Staple
wag
21. (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.
Subscribe
Mint
Flag
Modest
22. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
appropriate
intimate
Subscribe
Pore
23. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Stem
Carp
Eclipse
Lumber
24. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
alloy
obtain
intimate
color
25. 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
Temper
Discriminating
qualify
Floor
26. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
list
Stem
Milk
Channel
27. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Negotiate
appropriate
temper
Police
28. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
personification
Modest
Subscribe
nice
29. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Alien
flag
august
Buffet
30. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Badger
Subscribe
singular
die
31. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
august
table
singular
Hail
32. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Lumber
quail
Sanction
Alien
33. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Cave
Bent !
Crop
mince
34. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
flip
intimate
Rake
Badger
35. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Flag
appropriate
ford
Currency
36. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Qualify
Cave
Sustain
list
37. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Root
Grate
Bent !
38. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Temper
quail
meet
damp
39. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
lumber
court
Police
Alien
40. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Lumber
pied
flip
damp
41. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Discriminating
table
fell
Root
42. (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.
nice
Currency
Gravity
Milk
43. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
Root
Court
pedestrian
44. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
Eclipse
Grate
Police
45. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
intimate
Court
wag
Floor
46. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Pore
Embroider
Buffet
Precipitate
47. (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.
alloy
Channel
Police
Rake
48. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
Sanction
Stem
Bridge
49. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
prize
damp
Stock
pluck
50. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
essay
Qualify
Grave/Gravity