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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. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Crop
guy
court
essay
2. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Rail
brook
nice
negotiate
3. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Cavalier
Subscribe
Stock
Cave
4. 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.
brook
pedestrian
die
Check
5. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
stand
waffle
Relief
temper
6. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Grill
Grate
Pore
pluck
7. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Bridge
Carp
exact
pedestrian
8. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
flag
Constitution
mince
occult
9. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
flag
Constitution
nice
Precipitate
10. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Severe
Bridge
singular
guy
11. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
broach
list
Stem
Staple
12. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Sustain
appropriate
Currency
Badger
13. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Grave/Gravity
Slight
quail
occult
14. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
trenchant
Alien
exact
15. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
rail
flip
Precipitate
pied
16. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Bridge
august
guy
lumber
17. 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
nice
Grill
18. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Police
Qualify
Badger
Bent !
19. (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.
fell
Police
Compromise
pied
20. (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.
Constitution
Grate
Rank
Bent !
21. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
list
Buffet
intimate
22. 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.
Relief
alloy
Temper
trenchant
23. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
flip
Coin
Crop
mince
24. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Embroider
pied
mince
alloy
25. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Discriminating
ford
flag
table
26. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
Modest
Mint
nice
27. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Sustain
Mint
stand
Coin
28. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
flag
Sanction
brook
pluck
29. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Flag
die
grouse
rail
30. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
occult
Grave/Gravity
scurvy
rail
31. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Temper
Qualify
Cave
Rank
32. (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.
Alien
Spare
lumber
Mint
33. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Subscribe
sap
Police
Lumber
34. (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
Affect/Affected
Court
nice
Negotiate
35. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Buffet
Cave
Negotiate
scurvy
36. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
pine
Rail
Hail
wag
37. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Root
arrest/arresting
pine
Modest
38. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Precipitate
trenchant
quail
Check
39. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Affect/Affected
guy
Temper
Buffet
40. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Grave/Gravity
essay
personification
stand
41. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
Grave/Gravity
august
Grate
42. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
list
pluck
Check
Rake
43. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Gravity
singular
Alien
Slight
44. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
arrest/arresting
pied
Precipitate
45. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Staple
Cavalier
occult
Rank
46. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Stock
meet
fell
47. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Spare
Embroider
broach
scurvy
48. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
grouse
trenchant
rent
49. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Elliptical
Subscribe
Grate
Slight
50. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
color
Temper
die