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

On the ACT Reading Test, you'll encounter questions that ask you to determine the meanings of common words in context. We've identified 200 high-frequency, multiple-meaning words of the sort that you'll see on the exam. As you practice this list, you'll have to rely on context clues in order to determine each word’s meaning in a particular sentence. Be careful! Several of a word's meanings might show up as answer choices — but only one answer will capture the meaning of the word in the context of the sentence.
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  1. accept
    receive willingly something given or offered
  2. clip
    a small fastener used to hold loose articles together
  3. bearing
    characteristic way of holding one's body
  4. launch
    propel with force
  5. ripe
    fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
  6. clap
    strike one's hands together
  7. bleak
    unpleasantly cold and damp
  8. cross
    a marking that consists of lines that intersect each other
  9. fortune
    your overall circumstances or condition in life
  10. nasty
    offensive or even (of persons) malicious
  11. smother
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  12. bolt
    a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
Created on Fri Jun 06 12:06:13 EDT 2025

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