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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. (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
list
Affect/Affected
die
trenchant
2. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Slight
essay
Root
Badger
3. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Affect/Affected
Bridge
Relief
flag
4. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
pied
rail
wag
table
5. 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.
Subscribe
list
Floor
exact
6. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
pine
Lumber
wag
7. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
grouse
stand
Constitution
8. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Stock
Compromise
Root
9. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Negotiate
Root
damp
Coin
10. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Rank
broach
fell
Slight
11. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Bent
trenchant
appropriate
Coin
12. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Slight
Spare
Flag
13. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Milk
personification
guy
Gravity
14. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Modest
singular
rent
Bent !
15. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
sap
arrest/arresting
broach
Cave
16. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Compromise
fell
pluck
intimate
17. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Bent
singular
scurvy
Elliptical
18. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Precipitate
fell
Currency
obtain
19. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
scurvy
Channel
Buffet
temper
20. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Crop
Rank
quail
Discriminating
21. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Bridge
Sustain
Sanction
Badger
22. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
stand
pine
Stock
Mint
23. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
flip
consequential
Slight
Channel
24. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
wag
pied
table
Currency
25. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
color
Court
Grave/Gravity
Temper
26. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Temper
Hail
Qualify
Gravity
27. (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.
Discriminating
Rake
Bridge
flip
28. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Affect/Affected
appropriate
Discriminating
court
29. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
waffle
Bent !
singular
color
30. 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.
august
arrest/arresting
Bent !
Hail
31. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Buffet
Severe
scurvy
32. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Eclipse
waffle
Carp
33. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
Grate
table
Grill
34. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
meet
trenchant
Grill
35. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Slight
arrest/arresting
Court
flip
36. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
court
meet
Negotiate
stand
37. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
flip
pluck
Buffet
court
38. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
scurvy
flag
Qualify
39. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
lumber
negotiate
flag
waffle
40. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Grate
temper
flag
die
41. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
scurvy
Severe
wag
flip
42. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
strut
Mint
pied
Rail
43. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
court
Modest
Hail
44. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Root
rent
singular
intimate
45. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Grill
waffle
Spare
Modest
46. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
sap
Flag
Affect/Affected
court
47. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
table
Root
rent
lumber
48. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Rail
Hail
scurvy
wag
49. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Rail
Bent
Floor
Discriminating
50. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Sanction
singular
pluck
Spare