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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. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Stem
table
color
guy
2. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
strut
Sanction
Flag
negotiate
3. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
steep
Elliptical
color
Grill
4. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
broach
intimate
Grave/Gravity
Eclipse
5. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
arrest/arresting
Rail
Pore
Slight
6. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Coin
court
Relief
flag
7. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Coin
waffle
Staple
Milk
8. (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
Floor
Sustain
pied
Affect/Affected
9. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
Badger
temper
strut
10. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Gravity
Precipitate
Hail
waffle
11. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Gravity
grouse
Channel
pied
12. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Constitution
grouse
Bent !
Cave
13. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
lumber
august
Temper
Buffet
14. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
damp
Hail
Precipitate
Court
15. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
obtain
Bent !
Constitution
16. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
guy
Compromise
ford
Root
17. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Mint
essay
Cavalier
Alien
18. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
grouse
pluck
Coin
stand
19. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
guy
Sustain
Rake
rail
20. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
sap
pine
trenchant
obtain
21. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Badger
singular
Discriminating
Hail
22. (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.
rail
Slight
Lumber
Constitution
23. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
Alien
broach
Sustain
24. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Stem
Crop
fell
lumber
25. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
flag
Subscribe
negotiate
damp
26. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Relief
pied
alloy
Cavalier
27. To attempt to gain the favor or support of a person or group - The politician courted support for the new bill he wanted to pass -
alloy
Negotiate
qualify
Court
28. (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.
Cavalier
Bridge
flip
broach
29. (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.
Currency
Eclipse
Bent !
Police
30. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
Police
Crop
Elliptical
31. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
pedestrian
temper
august
trenchant
32. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Subscribe
Spare
intimate
occult
33. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Affect/Affected
qualify
singular
Spare
34. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rake
meet
Rail
Constitution
35. (v.) - To rummage around - search
exact
quail
waffle
Root
36. 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.
Cave
exact
mince
brook
37. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
Root
sap
Subscribe
Mint
38. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
fell
Grate
flip
alloy
39. 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
Modest
obtain
Lumber
40. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
intimate
Milk
Root
color
41. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
occult
waffle
strut
Check
42. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
guy
qualify
essay
ford
43. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Floor
Compromise
personification
Precipitate
44. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Relief
Cave
Slight
qualify
45. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Badger
meet
flip
singular
46. To soften; moderate. Mr. King - after forbidding students to wear shirst with scenes of violence tempered his remarks by saying that they did not apply to boys who never wore hoodies or shirts with offensive militaristic designs to school
qualify
Temper
Crop
quail
47. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
Floor
Coin
Elliptical
48. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
damp
table
singular
49. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Constitution
flag
Court
Milk
50. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
arrest/arresting
list
alloy
strut