Multiple Meaning Words List

Question 1

Affect (v.)

Answer 1

to pretend, assume, take on

Question 2

Affected (adj.)

Answer 2

behaving in a pretentious way

Question 3

Afford

Answer 3

grant (ex. opportunity)

Question 4

Appreciate

Answer 4

increase in value OR to take into account, recognize the merits of

Question 5

Appropriate

Answer 5

to take from, steal

Question 6

Arrest

Answer 6

to stop

Question 7

Assume

Answer 7

to take on responsibility for, to acquire(to assume a new position); pretend

Question 8

Austerity

Answer 8

extreme financial restraint, eliminating all excess spending

Question 9

Badger (v.)

Answer 9

to annoy(ex. reporters badgered the candidate after the scandal broke)

Question 10

Bent

Answer 10

liking or preference for

Question 11

Capacity

Answer 11

ability

Question 12

Chance (v.)

Answer 12

to attempt

Question 13

Check

Answer 13

to limit (ex. The vaccine checked the spread of the disease.)

Question 14

Coin

Answer 14

to invent (ex. coin a phrase)

Question 15

Compromise (v.)

Answer 15

to make vulnerable (ex. to compromise one’s beliefs)

Question 16

Constitution (n.)

Answer 16

a person’s state of health (ex. a football player has a solid constitution)

Question 17

Conviction

Answer 17

strong belief (noun form of convinced)

Question 18

Couch (v.)

Answer 18

to hide

Question 19

Currency

Answer 19

acceptable, approval(of an idea)

Question 20

Discriminating

Answer 20

able to make fine distinctions (ex. a discriminating palate)

Question 21

Dispatch

Answer 21

speed, efficiency (She completed her project promptly and with great dispatch)

Question 22

Doctor (v.)

Answer 22

to tamper with, alter

Question 23

Economy

Answer 23

thrift 절약 (a writer who has an economical style is one who uses few words)

Question 24

Embroider

Answer 24

to falsify, make up stories about

Question 25

Execute

Answer 25

to carry out

Question 26

Exploit

Answer 26

make use of, take advantage of

Question 27

Facility

Answer 27

ability to do something easily (a facility for learning languages)

Question 28

Foil

Answer 28

to put a stop to (to foil a robbery), OR (n.) a secondary character in a play

Question 29

Gravity

Answer 29

seriousness

Question 30

Grill

Answer 30

to question intensely and repeatedly (the police officers grilled the suspect thoroughly)

Question 31

Hamper

Answer 31

to hinder

Question 32

Harbor

Answer 32

to process, hold (to harbor a belief)

Question 33

Hobble

Answer 33

prevent, impede

Question 34

Mint

Answer 34

to produce money, OR (adj.) = like new (mint condition)

Question 35

Pedestrian

Answer 35

uninteresting

Question 36

Plastic/plasticity

Answer 36

able to be changed, malleable(brain plasticity)

Question 37

Provoke

Answer 37

elicit (a reaction)

Question 38

Qualify

Answer 38

1. to restrict

2. to provide more information about

Question 39

Realize

Answer 39

to achieve (a goal)

Question 40

Reconcile

Answer 40

to bring together opposing views

Question 41

Relate/relay

Answer 41

to pass on information, give an account of (a story)

Question 42

Reservation

Answer 42

misgivings, worries, skepticism

Question 43

Reserve

Answer 43

to hold off on (to reserve judgment)

Question 44

Ruffled

Answer 44

flustered, nonplussed(unruffled = calm)

Question 45

Sap (v.)

Answer 45

to drain(of energy)

Question 46

Scrap (v.)

Answer 46

to eliminate

Question 47

Shelve/Table (v.)

Answer 47

to reject or discard (an idea or proposal)

Question 48

Sound

Answer 48

stable, reliable, valid, firm (a sound argument)

Question 49

Spare, severe

Answer 49

plain, unadorned

Question 50

Static

Answer 50

unchanging (in a state of stasis)

Question 51

Store (n.)

Answer 51

something kept for later use = (n.) Reserve

Question 52

Sustain (v.)

Answer 52

to withstand

Question 53

Temper

Answer 53

to moderate, make less harsh

Question 54

Train

Answer 54

to fixate on (train one’s eyes on something)

Question 55

Uniform

Answer 55

constant, unvarying

Question 56

Unqualified

Answer 56

absolute

Question 57

Upset (v.)

Answer 57

to interfere with an expected outcome

Question 58

Want

Answer 58

lack

Question 59

Yield

Answer 59

to reveal or produce (an experiment yields results)