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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. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
pied
trenchant
temper
meet
2. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
steep
list
waffle
meet
3. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Eclipse
Grate
Rail
Alien
4. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
Discriminating
alloy
Milk
5. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Severe
Eclipse
color
Cavalier
6. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
guy
Slight
Negotiate
Bent !
7. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
quail
qualify
Sanction
Staple
8. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
Embroider
Staple
Spare
9. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Milk
grouse
Mint
10. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Precipitate
waffle
Rank
table
11. (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.
Qualify
brook
pluck
Police
12. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Grill
stand
Bridge
Negotiate
13. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Gravity
meet
Spare
consequential
14. 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
color
Cave
Spare
15. (v) - To shock or stun
Buffet
Sustain
obtain
Grate
16. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Carp
court
Lumber
Floor
17. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
prize
flip
appropriate
18. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
table
Qualify
occult
Elliptical
19. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
rent
Currency
wag
Precipitate
20. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Rail
Milk
Slight
Embroider
21. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Lumber
Stem
list
qualify
22. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
waffle
Rank
Stock
essay
23. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Pore
Gravity
Cavalier
Eclipse
24. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Bridge
mince
Rake
quail
25. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
essay
pedestrian
Sanction
Channel
26. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Cavalier
Badger
meet
obtain
27. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Milk
Floor
Bent
Buffet
28. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
Discriminating
Rank
sap
29. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Severe
temper
Elliptical
Temper
30. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
Floor
wag
die
31. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
strut
fell
court
pluck
32. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Coin
essay
consequential
flip
33. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
alloy
Carp
Grill
mince
34. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
Qualify
Badger
alloy
35. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Precipitate
Subscribe
grouse
Sanction
36. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
august
singular
obtain
personification
37. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Channel
court
Alien
Bent
38. 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.
pine
qualify
arrest/arresting
wag
39. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
lumber
Rake
Check
Crop
40. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
scurvy
Negotiate
Discriminating
Cave
41. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
scurvy
damp
Rail
Crop
42. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
Milk
stand
Grave/Gravity
43. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Coin
Constitution
Channel
Severe
44. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
consequential
alloy
stand
fell
45. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
alloy
Police
list
color
46. 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
Carp
Sanction
pine
47. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
broach
damp
temper
48. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
august
die
damp
waffle
49. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Rail
broach
stand
nice
50. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
guy
Sustain
consequential
list