SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 11

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  1. faith
    complete confidence in a person or plan, etc.
  2. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  3. heave
    lift or elevate
  4. weigh
    have a certain heft
  5. relation
    the state or quality of having something in common
  6. relief
    the act of reducing something unpleasant
  7. generation
    group of genetically related organisms in a line of descent
  8. neutral
    having no personal preference
  9. suspend
    bar temporarily
  10. waver
    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  11. absolute
    perfect or complete or pure
  12. arise
    move upward
  13. buckle
    fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap
Created on Fri Jun 06 11:37:39 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 11:38:51 EDT 2025)

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