SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 14

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  1. mass
    the property of a body that causes it to have weight
  2. ripe
    fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
  3. clap
    strike one's hands together
  4. bleak
    unpleasantly cold and damp
  5. cross
    a marking that consists of lines that intersect each other
  6. fortune
    your overall circumstances or condition in life
  7. nasty
    offensive or even (of persons) malicious
  8. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  9. shaft
    a long rod or pole, especially the body of a weapon
  10. smother
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  11. bolt
    a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
  12. response
    the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
Created on Fri Jun 06 11:42:20 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 11:43:01 EDT 2025)

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