These words are words you know BUT they have meanings at you need to know both meanings.
The list below contains a number of very common words, along with their less common definitions. Ones that have shown up on recent SATs are marked with an asterisk. You shouldn't go crazy over these because the SAT is far more likely to test words like trite, paradigm, multifarious, and esoteric, but you should keep them in mind.
Affect/Affected (n., adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior
*Alien (adj.) - Unfamiliar, foreign
Badger (v.) - To bother, question repeatedly
*Bent (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection, proclivity, penchant). The SAT really likes this one!
*Bridge (v.) - To join two things together
*Buffet (v.) - To toss around (e.g. the ship was buffeted by high winds)
*Carp (v.) - To complain
Cave (v.) - To give in, acquiesce
Constitution (n.) - The physical character, health of a body
Crop (v.) - To cut short
*Elliptical (adj.) - Indirect, vague
*Embroider (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate
Flag (v.) - To diminish
Floor (v) - To shock or stun
Grate (v.) - To have an irritating effect
*Grave/Gravity (adj.) - Serious
Grill (v.) - To question intensively
*Hail (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically
Lumber (v.) - To move heavily or clumsily, especially with great bulk
*Mint (n., v.) - A factory where money is produced / To produce money
Milk (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience)
*Modest (adj.) - Simple, unadorned
*Pedestrian (adj.) - Dull, unoriginal
*Police (v.) - To regulate, control
*Pore (n.) - To read over or study with great attention
*Qualify (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Rail (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rank (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor
Rake (n.) - A dissolute man, womanizer
Root (v.) - To rummage around, search
*Severe (adj.) - Austere, rigid
Slight (v.) - To insult, put down
Spare (adj.) - Simple, undecorated
Staple (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Stem (v.) - To put a stop to
*Subscribe (v.) - To believe in
Sustain (v.) - To withstand
Temper: (v.) to lessen, relax.
The list below contains a number of very common words, along with their less common definitions. Ones that have shown up on recent SATs are marked with an asterisk. You shouldn't go crazy over these because the SAT is far more likely to test words like trite, paradigm, multifarious, and esoteric, but you should keep them in mind.
Affect/Affected (n., adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior
*Alien (adj.) - Unfamiliar, foreign
Badger (v.) - To bother, question repeatedly
*Bent (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection, proclivity, penchant). The SAT really likes this one!
*Bridge (v.) - To join two things together
*Buffet (v.) - To toss around (e.g. the ship was buffeted by high winds)
*Carp (v.) - To complain
Cave (v.) - To give in, acquiesce
Constitution (n.) - The physical character, health of a body
Crop (v.) - To cut short
*Elliptical (adj.) - Indirect, vague
*Embroider (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate
Flag (v.) - To diminish
Floor (v) - To shock or stun
Grate (v.) - To have an irritating effect
*Grave/Gravity (adj.) - Serious
Grill (v.) - To question intensively
*Hail (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically
Lumber (v.) - To move heavily or clumsily, especially with great bulk
*Mint (n., v.) - A factory where money is produced / To produce money
Milk (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience)
*Modest (adj.) - Simple, unadorned
*Pedestrian (adj.) - Dull, unoriginal
*Police (v.) - To regulate, control
*Pore (n.) - To read over or study with great attention
*Qualify (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Rail (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Rank (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor
Rake (n.) - A dissolute man, womanizer
Root (v.) - To rummage around, search
*Severe (adj.) - Austere, rigid
Slight (v.) - To insult, put down
Spare (adj.) - Simple, undecorated
Staple (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Stem (v.) - To put a stop to
*Subscribe (v.) - To believe in
Sustain (v.) - To withstand
Temper: (v.) to lessen, relax.
Her modest appearance reflected her very little interest for high fashion.
ReplyDeleteUsing all the secrets I once shared with him, he slighted me into an unsociable state.
My mother rooted through my closest in search of her sandals.
I couldn't force myself to read another sentence in that pedestrian novel.
I felt like in odd ball in this alien land.
-I carped several times to my uncle about his sons behavior.
ReplyDelete-He cropped half of the pictures before uploading them
-I always pore my test before handing it in.
-I subscribe in God
-She stemmed her eating addiction.
-My aunt railed to my dad about my attitude towards the mailman.
-He badgered me so much that my opinion of him felt grated.
ReplyDelete-He grilled the captive for information but he sustained until he was released.
-The rake rooted through the bar but was slighted when he was rejected by the waiter.
-The grave feeling at the party floored me, and I bridged that something had happened.
-The spare rooms, filled only with staples, gave the house a modest feel.
-The father’s severe attitude leads to believe that any disobedience from his children would be quickly stemmed.
-The man lumbered around the room until his temper began to flag.
-The campers’ rank tempered after they were able to wash up.
-Before the students could carp about the project, the teacher qualified it by lessening the requirements.
-Allow me to embroider her elliptical statement.
-The arcade was so policed that it was considered pedestrian.
-Her constitution was so delicate that her body caved when the epidemic spread.
1. English was alien to the foreign student.
ReplyDelete2. My brother constantly badgered me about the money I owed him.
3. The teacher was really bent on trying to teach the students how to use proper english.
4. The judge was able to bridge the gap between the mother and the daughter's relationship.
5. The toy was buffeted by a toddler and his sister.
6. Her mother recently died, and she lost her job so she had reasons to carp.
7. The lawyer was believable to the point where the witness started to cave into what he was saying.
8. The constitution of the young male was an inspiration to those who desired a muscular built.
9. When retelling the story, the girl decided to crop it because it contained some unnecessary details.
10. His answer to my question was elliptical so I had to ask him to narrow it down.
11. He embroidered the tale so much that it started to become not true.
12. The family values the twins once had began to flag.
13. After recieving the news that her daughter was pregnant, the mother was floored.
14. The matter was too grave for any one person to handle.
15. The father grilled his son because he was curious as to why he constantly got suspended from school.
16. There are several mints across the country.
17. The comedian milked the audience because he felt as though he wasn't getting as much appreciation as he deserved.
18. She was dressed modestly, so those who were dressed more elegantly looked down on her.
19. The speaker of the night was pedestrian, so a few people in the audience began to doze off.
20. Parents put rules over their households to police order.
21. The students had to pore their history notes because the final exam was in a few days.
22. My grandmother railed about us because we left her house messy.
23. The survivors of the plan crash that landed in the wilderness ranked, because they hadnt showered in days.
24. The police rooted me because they believed that
I was carrying drugs.
25. George constantly slighted his neighbor, for reasons unknown.
26. The livingroom was spare because whoever designed it didn't put much thought into it.
27. The mother stemmed the dispute between her children before it waxed any worse.
28. Rather than subscribing in God, she thought it good not to.
29. Most residents of Florida are able to sustain hurricanes, considering they happen often down there.
30. He began to temper after finding out that his grandfather's surgery was successful.
1.) After they broke up, she CROPPED her ex out of the pictures because it brought her a roller coaster of confusing emotions.
ReplyDelete2.) I came home and my mother started to RAIL about my messy room and the importance of keeping it clean.
3.) Knowing that my sister was gullible it was obvious that she SUBSCRIBED to the lies her acquaintances told her.
4.) His wife came home and the RANK smell of her husbands clothes almost knocked her down.
5.) She saw that her necklace broke therefore she brought it to the jewelry store so they can BRIDGE the missing parts together.