SAT Multiple Meaning Words List #5

Sula was trying them out and discarding them without any excuse that men could swallow.

In this sentence, swallow means to:

• stifle

• engulf

• accept

• devour

For obscure places or sailings out of season, he had to make do with passage to someplace near his destination and complete his journey abroad smaller costal craft or overland.

In this sentence, obscure means:

• an unclear mind

• to not draw attention

• make less visible

• remote or separate physically

But Coplan was a bust professor and a productive researcher, and he easily occupied himself with other work.

In this sentence occupied means:

• employed

• worried

• colonized

• lodged

The diode goes between free end of the two wires and meets the leads of the battery to complete the circuit.

In this sentence, complete means:

• to be highly skilled

• having every necessary part or component

• a document for travel

• a disruption of normal activity

There was remarkable clam and efficiency here, even though routine had been upset by the need to stop all work.

In this sentence, upset means to:

• dismayed

• debated

• defeated

• disrupted

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavors of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream.

In this sentence, absorbed means:

• to assimilate

• to take in a liquid

• to ridicule mercilessly

• to forgive for ones mistakes

He then plans to sit out an expected patch of bad weather in a high-altitude camp before going on to the final two peaks.

In this sentence, patch means:

• splotch

• mend

• plot

• stretch

Epithet means:

• a document appraising the values of something

• descriptive word or phrase

• a document giving official instruction or command

• showing your contempt by derision

This decline in standards, experts say, is paradoxically because of the rush to build schools and bring back children to the education fold.

In this sentence, decline means:

• discernment

• deterioration

• downslope

• demise

Sputter means to:

• extend in a different direction

• spring forward on the hind legs

• start to burn or burst into flames

• make an explosive sound