Multiple-Meaning Words: Multiple-Meaning Words: Week 6

Context is king — that’s the lesson you need to internalize as you begin preparing for the vocabulary questions on the SAT. We have identified this pool of 200 words that cut across the disciplines and lend themselves well to context-dependent interpretation. As you learn this list on Vocabulary.com, you will have to rely on context clues in order to determine each word’s meaning in particular sentences. This is the same type of thinking you will need to develop in order to succeed on the SAT!

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  1. faith
    complete confidence in a person or plan, etc.
  2. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  3. heave
    lift or elevate
  4. weigh
    have a certain heft
  5. relation
    the state or quality of having something in common
  6. relief
    the act of reducing something unpleasant
  7. generation
    group of genetically related organisms in a line of descent
  8. neutral
    having no personal preference
  9. suspend
    bar temporarily
  10. waver
    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  11. absolute
    perfect or complete or pure
  12. arise
    move upward
  13. buckle
    fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap
  14. claim
    assert or affirm strongly
  15. commit
    engage in or perform
  16. extension
    act of expanding in scope
  17. provide
    give something useful or necessary to
  18. reflection
    the phenomenon of a wave being thrown back from a surface
  19. service
    an act of help or assistance
  20. subdued
    restrained in style or quality
  21. dissolve
    pass into a solution
  22. expression
    the communication of your beliefs or opinions
  23. foundation
    the basis on which something is grounded
  24. medium
    the surrounding environment
  25. wake
    stop sleeping
Created on Fri Dec 11 10:14:10 EST 2015 (updated Thu Jun 24 14:18:19 EDT 2021)

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