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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 successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
consequential
trenchant
brook
2. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
fell
pied
intimate
3. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Stem
rent
negotiate
Compromise
4. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
Sanction
Root
pine
5. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Elliptical
Mint
Court
singular
6. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
sap
Precipitate
negotiate
list
7. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Sanction
Carp
Bent !
8. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
court
flag
color
scurvy
9. 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.
Grave/Gravity
guy
alloy
Stock
10. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
rent
Subscribe
brook
list
11. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Slight
damp
Alien
Cave
12. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
grouse
color
pied
stand
13. 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.
Staple
Constitution
scurvy
arrest/arresting
14. 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
Temper
Check
Stock
august
15. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Negotiate
Rake
Elliptical
temper
16. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Carp
rent
Constitution
pine
17. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Embroider
broach
Check
pluck
18. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Check
Relief
table
Precipitate
19. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
qualify
mince
Milk
Rank
20. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
strut
Grill
Temper
Bridge
21. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
ford
wag
Carp
brook
22. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
quail
Modest
scurvy
pluck
23. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
august
lumber
Stock
qualify
24. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
court
Hail
Bent
arrest/arresting
25. (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.
Grate
Bridge
Spare
qualify
26. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Qualify
Compromise
personification
Negotiate
27. (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.
fell
trenchant
Police
Rake
28. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Badger
Crop
nice
flip
29. 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.
occult
Grave/Gravity
Modest
exact
30. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Crop
Rail
pluck
flag
31. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Currency
Spare
august
flag
32. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
scurvy
alloy
Milk
flip
33. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Slight
sap
grouse
consequential
34. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
grouse
essay
stand
wag
35. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Root
Elliptical
Sanction
rail
36. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
sap
Rail
steep
Coin
37. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Relief
Bent !
fell
grouse
38. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
scurvy
negotiate
Bent !
Channel
39. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Embroider
Subscribe
list
color
40. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
steep
Channel
Lumber
Discriminating
41. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
obtain
intimate
Embroider
Temper
42. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Root
rent
Stem
43. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
scurvy
Bent
appropriate
Rank
44. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Rake
Gravity
prize
Pore
45. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Check
august
personification
Compromise
46. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Spare
waffle
Bent !
Pore
47. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Milk
Grave/Gravity
pied
48. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Milk
grouse
pluck
49. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
pedestrian
nice
damp
50. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
arrest/arresting
Modest
Grave/Gravity
Cave