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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. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
rail
Grill
brook
consequential
2. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
pine
guy
trenchant
temper
3. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Constitution
appropriate
Bridge
Precipitate
4. (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.
Bridge
Stem
Badger
nice
5. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
qualify
flag
Currency
flip
6. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Stock
Badger
strut
obtain
7. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Eclipse
ford
Root
grouse
8. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
flip
Mint
Bent
nice
9. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Hail
singular
Cavalier
scurvy
10. 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
rent
Gravity
Qualify
Temper
11. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Alien
Rail
negotiate
brook
12. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Floor
pine
Qualify
stand
13. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
color
Court
Discriminating
14. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
court
Relief
pluck
Carp
15. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
consequential
Sanction
Compromise
wag
16. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
waffle
pied
Negotiate
stand
17. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Coin
prize
brook
Alien
18. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
mince
Police
Gravity
19. 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 -
Flag
Court
Lumber
Elliptical
20. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
appropriate
Court
stand
21. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Milk
Bent !
waffle
Flag
22. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Rank
strut
pedestrian
arrest/arresting
23. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
personification
grouse
Bridge
Compromise
24. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
Precipitate
Grill
Affect/Affected
25. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
alloy
brook
damp
Affect/Affected
26. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Grate
quail
august
Stock
27. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
meet
rent
pedestrian
rail
28. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
arrest/arresting
Bent !
fell
Court
29. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
list
Relief
Sustain
ford
30. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
flip
scurvy
damp
Embroider
31. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
guy
Hail
Channel
Temper
32. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Hail
Staple
Rail
die
33. 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.
exact
Badger
Discriminating
arrest/arresting
34. To demand - call for - require - take. Our English teachers demands were exacting. The pressure of public speaking exacted a tremendous amount of vitality from George VI.
exact
arrest/arresting
Temper
fell
35. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
pedestrian
prize
Temper
ford
36. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
ford
august
Compromise
37. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
essay
court
Precipitate
personification
38. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Bent !
pluck
Spare
mince
39. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
pluck
pedestrian
intimate
Root
40. 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
Pore
personification
Badger
41. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
sap
Qualify
wag
Coin
42. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Grill
Check
Crop
qualify
43. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Police
Severe
negotiate
Sanction
44. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Rail
broach
Stock
Milk
45. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Carp
Sanction
essay
Rank
46. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Rank
Gravity
Negotiate
47. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Severe
Slight
Stem
wag
48. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
intimate
Badger
Qualify
pedestrian
49. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
quail
Elliptical
flag
guy
50. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Compromise
meet
wag
Rail