Vocabulary: Secondary Meanings 1

Question 0

Appropriate

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(Verb) to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 1

Alloy

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(Verb) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

*unalloyed means pure

Question 2

Arrest, arresting

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(Verb / Adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

*as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

Question 3

August

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(Adj.) majestic, venerable

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Bent

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(Noun) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Broach

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(Verb) to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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Brook

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(Verb) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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Cardinal

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(Adj.) major, as in a cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

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(Noun) a blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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(Verb) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)

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Consequential

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(Adj.) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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Damp

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(Verb) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die

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(Noun) a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay

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(Verb) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Exact

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(Verb) to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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Fell

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(Verb) to cause to fall by striking

(Adj.) inhumanly cruel

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Flag

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(Verb) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flip

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(Adj.) sarcastic; impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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Ford

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(Verb) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse

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(Verb) to complain or grumble

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Guy

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(Noun) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide

[verb form: guyed, guying]

Question 21

Intimate

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(Verb) to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List

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(Verb) to tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

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(Verb) to move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

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(Adj.) fitting, proper

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Milk

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(Verb) to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

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(Verb) to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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Nice

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(Adj.) exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain

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(Adj.) to be established, accepted, or customary

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Occult

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(Adj.) hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 30

Pedestrian

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(Adj.) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pied

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(Adj.) multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pine

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(Verb) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic

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(Adj.) moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

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(Noun) courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize

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(Verb) to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

Question 36

Rail

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(Verb) to complain about bitterly

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Rent

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(Verb) torn, past tense of rend; an opening or tear caused by such

Question 38

Quail

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(Verb) to lose courage; to turn frightened

Question 39

Qualify

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(Verb) to limit

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Sap

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(Verb) to enervate or weaken the vitality of (Noun) a fool or nitwit

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Scurvy

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(Adj.) contemptible, despicable

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Singular

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(Adj.) exceptional, unusual, odd

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Stand

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(Noun) a group of trees

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Steep

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(Verb) to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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Strut

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(Noun) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table

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(Verb) to remove, as a parliamentary motion, from consideration

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Tender

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(Verb) to proffer or offer

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Waffle

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(Verb) to equivocate; to change one's position

Question 49

Wag

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(Noun) wit, joker