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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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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.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
ford
Severe
Grave/Gravity
mince
2. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Stock
Eclipse
Flag
wag
3. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Elliptical
Police
Severe
Rank
4. (n. - adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior. The trouble with Jill is that her behavior is so affected that it is impossible to determine her real personality
strut
Affect/Affected
Rake
ford
5. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
quail
prize
Stem
court
6. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
pedestrian
alloy
Grave/Gravity
Cavalier
7. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
pied
rent
Relief
intimate
8. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
fell
flag
Grate
scurvy
9. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
broach
Crop
Eclipse
Floor
10. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Bent !
rent
lumber
temper
11. 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
Qualify
nice
Temper
12. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Court
arrest/arresting
Hail
pluck
13. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
guy
damp
lumber
14. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Bent
Negotiate
Flag
exact
15. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
brook
pine
august
guy
16. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
Rail
mince
Hail
17. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
Sustain
waffle
pied
18. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
brook
Modest
die
personification
19. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
meet
prize
Coin
nice
20. 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.
Negotiate
alloy
Precipitate
Modest
21. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
arrest/arresting
negotiate
Pore
Stock
22. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
pluck
flag
Check
23. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
damp
Coin
Precipitate
essay
24. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
mince
Slight
Stock
pluck
25. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
strut
stand
Court
26. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rail
Floor
Stock
Slight
27. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Negotiate
Coin
Root
Court
28. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Spare
Discriminating
Pore
Check
29. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Modest
flip
Sanction
prize
30. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
mince
Floor
Qualify
Flag
31. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Spare
broach
Currency
obtain
32. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Precipitate
Cavalier
Bent !
mince
33. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
negotiate
Check
Gravity
Stem
34. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Grill
personification
obtain
Stock
35. (v.) - To rummage around - search
pedestrian
Root
rent
Bent
36. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
august
Gravity
Root
qualify
37. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
consequential
arrest/arresting
Buffet
38. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
flip
Severe
Lumber
flag
39. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Staple
Qualify
Rail
40. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
brook
Eclipse
quail
Gravity
41. 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
qualify
Floor
Negotiate
42. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
intimate
exact
Relief
Alien
43. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
consequential
list
Bent !
44. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Cavalier
trenchant
Gravity
pedestrian
45. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
consequential
lumber
waffle
Cave
46. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
Cavalier
Mint
Subscribe
47. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Cavalier
color
Constitution
scurvy
48. 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
Stock
negotiate
Elliptical
Temper
49. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Bent !
appropriate
intimate
consequential
50. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Modest
flag
meet
rent