Beyond the Hit Parade (Secondary Meanings)
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cspcsm8188 on March 18, 2011
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Here are some less common meanings of common words that ETS frequently tests.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alloy | v. to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| appropriate | v. to take for one's own use; confiscate |
| arrest | v. to suspend; to engage; to hold one's attention |
| august | adj. majestic; venerable |
| bent | n. leaning; inclination; proclivity; tendency |
| broach | v. to bring up or announce; to begin to talk about |
| brook | v. to tolerate, endure, or countenance |
| cardinal | adj. of great importance |
| color | v. to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect |
| damp | v. to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound, etc. |
| die | n. a part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts |
| essay | v. to test or try; to attempt or experiment |
| exact | v. to demand, call for, require take |
| flag | v. to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| flip | adj. sarcastic, impertinent |
| ford | v. to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| grouse | b. to complain or grumble |
| guy | n. a cord or cable used to steady or guide something |
| intimate | v. to imply, suggest or insinuate |
| list | v. to tilt or lean to one side |
| lumber | v. to move heavily and clumsily |
| milk | v. to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| mince | v. to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully; also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe |
| nice | adj. exacting; fastidious; extremely, even excessively, precise |
| obtain | v. to be established, accepted, or customary |
| occult | adj. hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension |
| pedestrian | adj. commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian |
| pied | adj. multicolored, usually in blotches or patches |
| pine | v. to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
| plastic | adj. malleable; pliable; not rigid |
| prize | v., n. to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
| rail | v. to complain about bitterly |
| rent | adj., n. torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
| quail | v. to lose courage; to become frightened |
| qualify | v. to limit |
| sap | v. to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| scurvy | adj. contemptible; despicable |
| singular | adj. exceptional; unusual; odd |
| steep | v. to saturate or completely soak |
| strut | n. the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| table | v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| tender | v. to proffer or offer; to give |
| waffle | v. to equivocate; to change one's position |
| wag | n. wit; joker |
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