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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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1. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Relief
temper
Alien
Lumber
2. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Discriminating
Channel
stand
list
3. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Affect/Affected
Sanction
temper
Currency
4. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Grill
wag
trenchant
Rake
5. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Bent !
Temper
singular
Grill
6. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Subscribe
Cave
stand
flip
7. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Qualify
table
wag
negotiate
8. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
trenchant
Grate
personification
sap
9. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Root
broach
intimate
Sanction
10. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Bent
qualify
Eclipse
Milk
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.
qualify
negotiate
nice
arrest/arresting
12. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
grouse
pied
alloy
arrest/arresting
13. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
scurvy
quail
fell
Eclipse
14. (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.
appropriate
Bridge
pedestrian
Currency
15. (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.
Mint
broach
Sustain
damp
16. (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience) The young singer stayed on stage after the applause died down hoping to milk more even more recognition from the audience.
Mint
Milk
meet
Bent
17. (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.
Hail
Police
Bent
Cave
18. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
scurvy
flip
fell
Rank
19. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
Discriminating
essay
Court
20. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Pore
wag
Channel
Currency
21. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
temper
prize
negotiate
broach
22. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Crop
obtain
Check
23. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
Bridge
Stock
occult
24. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
negotiate
intimate
trenchant
damp
25. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
flip
die
Eclipse
flag
26. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
ford
Slight
lumber
strut
27. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
Relief
Gravity
Bent
28. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Precipitate
grouse
strut
consequential
29. 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.
pedestrian
Police
flip
pine
30. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Grave/Gravity
Milk
Elliptical
Pore
31. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
meet
alloy
Badger
32. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Cavalier
court
Milk
fell
33. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Coin
Rail
arrest/arresting
negotiate
34. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
trenchant
consequential
Spare
35. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
brook
Slight
waffle
36. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Badger
Cave
stand
Stem
37. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
qualify
negotiate
color
Discriminating
38. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
Eclipse
Coin
table
39. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
rent
grouse
Sanction
Carp
40. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
steep
rail
personification
Negotiate
41. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Grave/Gravity
Severe
Mint
Buffet
42. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
rent
intimate
Constitution
essay
43. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
Precipitate
Elliptical
personification
44. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Affect/Affected
alloy
Court
45. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
Police
qualify
Channel
46. (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
Severe
Affect/Affected
Compromise
guy
47. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
mince
sap
essay
Elliptical
48. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Carp
table
Court
flag
49. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Pore
damp
lumber
fell
50. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
Compromise
Coin
court