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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 imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Badger
intimate
pluck
Floor
2. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
temper
Cavalier
broach
Modest
3. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
steep
Currency
qualify
brook
4. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
Crop
Sustain
Coin
5. (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.
Carp
pied
pluck
Bridge
6. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
steep
Sustain
quail
Discriminating
7. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
stand
Cave
Sanction
Grave/Gravity
8. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
negotiate
Grill
alloy
Cave
9. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
Police
Cave
temper
10. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Gravity
Check
appropriate
Rake
11. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Pore
Rank
steep
Crop
12. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Grill
Pore
broach
alloy
13. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
nice
Precipitate
consequential
Carp
14. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Stem
Grave/Gravity
consequential
flip
15. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Milk
Buffet
Hail
Modest
16. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
august
Rank
Rake
fell
17. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Floor
meet
Modest
Sustain
18. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Lumber
prize
Staple
brook
19. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Relief
Lumber
Elliptical
Stem
20. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
meet
august
Rail
alloy
21. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Rake
Hail
Bent
waffle
22. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Severe
Bridge
intimate
Flag
23. 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.
Bridge
Sustain
arrest/arresting
Stem
24. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Grave/Gravity
Carp
brook
Root
25. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Affect/Affected
scurvy
Buffet
pedestrian
26. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Modest
quail
prize
Severe
27. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
stand
Grave/Gravity
lumber
obtain
28. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Qualify
strut
Precipitate
damp
29. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Severe
appropriate
Sustain
consequential
30. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
lumber
singular
color
personification
31. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Bent
Hail
court
exact
32. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
mince
flag
occult
obtain
33. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
Sustain
Rank
strut
34. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
pied
obtain
Stock
mince
35. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Severe
Channel
Root
Stock
36. (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
grouse
pine
wag
Affect/Affected
37. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
obtain
rail
damp
qualify
38. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
scurvy
Elliptical
Hail
stand
39. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
mince
pied
Alien
Coin
40. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
mince
Check
Severe
Bent
41. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
waffle
Rake
pedestrian
Relief
42. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
qualify
Subscribe
list
Mint
43. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Cavalier
Bridge
Compromise
color
44. (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
alloy
Milk
Mint
45. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
singular
court
Court
46. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Rake
obtain
appropriate
Subscribe
47. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Grate
Stem
Badger
Channel
48. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
trenchant
color
Negotiate
Rail
49. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
stand
Pore
Bent !
Eclipse
50. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
obtain
august
Grill
Eclipse