SAT Words # SAT/M219

v. confront
(a) to have weight or influence (in determining a question)
(b) to confiscate
(c) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles
(d) to regard or speak of slightingly
 
v. wreak
(a) to mumble something over and over
(b) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate
(c) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully
(d) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment
 
v. specialize
(a) to disentangle
(b) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study
(c) to break a law
(d) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner
 
v. circumnavigate
(a) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction
(b) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person
(c) to get as one's own
(d) to sail around the world
 
v. miscount
(a) to become detached
(b) to take a different course
(c) to make a mathematical error
(d) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life

v. acquaint
(a) to make familiar or conversant
(b) to cut through or into so as to divide
(c) to yield
(d) to hold in general opinion
 
v. misuse
(a) to maltreat
(b) to make bright or clear
(c) to mean; to signify
(d) to grow worse
 
v. dwindle
(a) to diminish or become less
(b) to be involved; join in
(c) to smother
(d) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance
 
v. amputate
(a) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body
(b) to influence controllingly
(c) to make supremely happy
(d) to strike with or as with the head or horns
 
v. regress
(a) to regain
(b) to discern beforehand
(c) to return to a former place or condition
(d) to pollute