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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. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Pore
Slight
personification
Grate
2. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
appropriate
broach
Slight
negotiate
3. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Milk
Subscribe
quail
lumber
4. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Embroider
Severe
court
Currency
5. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Temper
Stock
prize
qualify
6. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Cave
singular
Bent !
Embroider
7. 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
Elliptical
Currency
Coin
8. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
occult
Eclipse
court
obtain
9. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
die
Root
Coin
Sanction
10. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Spare
wag
qualify
Gravity
11. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Elliptical
die
Staple
stand
12. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
Rake
Spare
steep
13. 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.
pedestrian
scurvy
Mint
temper
14. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
Crop
Slight
Lumber
15. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
meet
Crop
obtain
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
lumber
Precipitate
appropriate
17. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Affect/Affected
Check
pedestrian
Slight
18. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
pluck
Pore
court
list
19. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Sanction
nice
guy
sap
20. 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.
arrest/arresting
Modest
Cavalier
damp
21. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
pedestrian
die
Coin
22. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
rent
list
Qualify
Relief
23. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Hail
Qualify
Floor
brook
24. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
exact
Modest
ford
Stock
25. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
damp
Cavalier
temper
Hail
26. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Discriminating
sap
temper
rail
27. (v) - To shock or stun
Bent
temper
Grate
Grave/Gravity
28. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Hail
Stem
rail
table
29. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Qualify
lumber
brook
obtain
30. (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.
Constitution
meet
qualify
Police
31. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
waffle
Root
Sustain
nice
32. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Grill
Precipitate
flag
exact
33. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Floor
exact
Bridge
34. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Bent
Discriminating
Rank
Modest
35. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
prize
Affect/Affected
Carp
Milk
36. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Slight
Affect/Affected
Cavalier
Elliptical
37. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
Alien
singular
flag
38. 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 -
fell
rail
Court
Sustain
39. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Stem
Badger
Court
ford
40. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Discriminating
Police
appropriate
pine
41. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Stem
Relief
Discriminating
negotiate
42. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Rail
Channel
Sustain
Root
43. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Gravity
Milk
Rank
Root
44. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
pedestrian
Lumber
Grate
consequential
45. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
intimate
ford
Court
Buffet
46. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
Floor
court
Affect/Affected
47. (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.
Mint
Milk
brook
arrest/arresting
48. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
court
Rake
intimate
49. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Negotiate
Lumber
sap
Badger
50. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
ford
Badger
wag
prize