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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. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Bent
sap
Sustain
broach
2. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
lumber
Stem
Crop
rail
3. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Staple
obtain
personification
Qualify
4. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
prize
appropriate
lumber
obtain
5. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
ford
august
die
6. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
fell
Sustain
Constitution
sap
7. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Currency
Floor
Court
Bent !
8. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
steep
pluck
Negotiate
meet
9. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
brook
broach
Stock
Floor
10. 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.
Modest
nice
Bent
exact
11. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
Precipitate
consequential
Cavalier
12. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
Badger
Flag
Coin
13. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Subscribe
quail
Bridge
Constitution
14. (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.
alloy
Cave
Constitution
die
15. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Relief
Root
Affect/Affected
Sanction
16. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Pore
Negotiate
intimate
Rail
17. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Lumber
august
Subscribe
court
18. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
color
strut
temper
19. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
pedestrian
Severe
ford
Grave/Gravity
20. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
alloy
qualify
Eclipse
Precipitate
21. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Crop
Slight
arrest/arresting
Channel
22. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
flip
brook
Elliptical
Qualify
23. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
brook
Precipitate
Slight
Embroider
24. 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
sap
Constitution
25. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
ford
Root
Floor
Stem
26. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
court
pied
Carp
exact
27. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Spare
intimate
Stem
august
28. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Sanction
Hail
Temper
Buffet
29. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Negotiate
Slight
Gravity
Rail
30. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Alien
court
Sanction
Bent !
31. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Carp
Bent
meet
negotiate
32. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Sanction
pine
Currency
stand
33. 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.
alloy
grouse
pluck
Flag
34. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Stem
Slight
nice
rent
35. 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
Lumber
Negotiate
Badger
36. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Elliptical
scurvy
Court
Constitution
37. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Crop
Hail
steep
damp
38. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Gravity
Affect/Affected
Carp
Stock
39. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Negotiate
flip
consequential
Rail
40. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
guy
Relief
alloy
intimate
41. (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.
Subscribe
Relief
Buffet
Bridge
42. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
list
Relief
personification
Sustain
43. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
ford
Modest
grouse
rent
44. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
negotiate
exact
Check
Channel
45. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Modest
ford
Stock
waffle
46. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Relief
august
waffle
Rank
47. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
strut
Modest
Carp
Floor
48. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Rank
meet
Cavalier
nice
49. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
fell
Floor
alloy
color
50. 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.
Eclipse
Spare
Currency
arrest/arresting