SAT Words # SAT/M91

v. minimize
(a) to cough up and spit forth
(b) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree
(c) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass
(d) to disfigure
 
v. ensnare
(a) to take hold of
(b) to put an end or stop to
(c) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse
(d) to entrap
 
v. dominate
(a) to search through and through
(b) to leave
(c) to influence controllingly
(d) to wander from place to place
 
v. translate
(a) to cause to appear greatly
(b) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty
(c) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect
(d) to wander from place to place
 
v. palliate
(a) to set free or release from bondage
(b) to cause to appear less guilty
(c) to make payment for
(d) to punish

v. outstretch
(a) to extend
(b) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement
(c) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly
(d) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person
 
v. evert
(a) to bring to pass
(b) to cause to appear less guilty
(c) to make of or ornament with brass
(d) to turn inside out
 
v. transmute
(a) to leave
(b) to throw into confusion
(c) to injure the reputation of
(d) to change in nature, substance or form
 
v. transpire
(a) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features
(b) to come to pass
(c) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief
(d) to certify as accurate, genuine or true
 
v. modulate
(a) to conquer
(b) to offset
(c) to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound
(d) to hold back