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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. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Floor
strut
Spare
Milk
2. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
consequential
pine
appropriate
Bent
3. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
meet
Gravity
Bent
Stock
4. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Rank
Alien
flip
Constitution
5. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
color
trenchant
pine
brook
6. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
meet
Grave/Gravity
rail
Sustain
7. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
singular
Negotiate
Coin
Modest
8. 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.
guy
Court
Mint
exact
9. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
Stem
list
occult
10. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Grave/Gravity
pluck
personification
Sustain
11. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
scurvy
ford
pedestrian
12. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Qualify
Crop
strut
pied
13. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
singular
Elliptical
Rank
exact
14. 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 -
Constitution
Court
singular
Staple
15. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
damp
fell
Subscribe
Sanction
16. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
occult
Flag
pied
essay
17. (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.
Alien
Constitution
Slight
Court
18. 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.
Crop
table
qualify
pedestrian
19. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
pluck
Grill
Bent
consequential
20. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
Rank
Cave
Root
21. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
prize
Staple
Elliptical
occult
22. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
personification
Grate
intimate
alloy
23. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
waffle
Rank
lumber
Hail
24. (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.
essay
Crop
Milk
negotiate
25. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
exact
Hail
pedestrian
26. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
wag
Grill
quail
flip
27. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
Pore
table
pied
28. (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.
Check
Mint
scurvy
Stock
29. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
pied
qualify
Currency
singular
30. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Elliptical
obtain
Rail
alloy
31. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
alloy
brook
Slight
strut
32. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
broach
essay
rent
33. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Currency
trenchant
Channel
qualify
34. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Relief
mince
Cave
Currency
35. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Staple
Coin
quail
guy
36. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
strut
Grave/Gravity
appropriate
pine
37. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Court
strut
Eclipse
38. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
exact
Pore
Alien
Flag
39. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
lumber
fell
Buffet
40. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Coin
Temper
ford
41. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Bent
lumber
Grill
Stock
42. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
exact
ford
color
43. (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.
Grate
Police
wag
Check
44. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Stock
Rank
Precipitate
mince
45. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Discriminating
ford
Cave
Bridge
46. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
steep
exact
pedestrian
die
47. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Check
fell
Spare
singular
48. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
pine
table
Alien
Qualify
49. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Cave
august
Grate
Discriminating
50. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
pluck
exact
Eclipse
Rail