SSAT Middle Level Verbal › Synonyms: Other Verbs
Synonyms: choose the word with the meaning closest to the word in question.
Collaborate
to cooperate
to bicker
to tease
to disagree
to present
"Collaborate" means to cooperate.
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
FUMIGATE
Disinfect
Burn
Preserve
Repudiate
Fuse
"Fumigate" is a verb that means to disinfect something by means of smoke or poisonous fumes.
"Fuse" means to join, or to meld objects. Often is means to weld two pieces of metal together.
"Repudiate" means to reject something as false or to turn one's back on something.
"Preserve" means to keep something safe in its original state.
"Burn" means to harm or destroy something with fire.
Synonyms: choose the word with the meaning closest to the word in question.
Dismantle
to take apart
to construct
to trade
to destroy
to approve
"Dismantle" means to take apart.
Synonyms: Select the word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.
CONGEAL
Thicken
Underwhelm
Deplore
Parody
Integrate
“Congeal” means thicken, so "thicken" is the correct answer. For clarification, "deplore" means hate, "integrate" means to put together or to come together, and a "parody" is an amusing copy of something.
Synonyms: Select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.
ELAPSE
Pass
Go under
Go over
Discuss
Move away
"Elapse" usually refers to time and means pass.
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
RELINQUISH
Renounce
Inhale
March
Dive
Renew
Relinquish means give up control of, so "renounce" is the answer choice closest in meaning to "relinquish."
Synonyms
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PERSEVERE
to persist
to sweat
to lie
to persecute
to abscond with
Persevere means to persist.
Synonyms: Select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.
VEND
Sell
Fey
Rue
Love
Detest
To vend means to sell, so "sell" is the correct answer. For clarification, to "rue" something means to have feelings of regret about it_,_ "fey" means supernatural or magical, and "detest" means hate.
A synonym of "falter" is __________.
waver
entrap
select
scamper
retrieve
"Falter" is a verb that means "to being to fail or weaken," "to begin to walk or move in an unsteady way," or "to feel doubt about doing something." Since "waver" means "to go back and forth between choices or opinions; to be indecisive," "to move back and forth in an unsteady way," or "to become unsteady because of weakness, emotion, or tiredness," "waver" is closest in meaning to "falter" of the given answer choices, so "waver" is the correct answer.
Synonyms: Select the one word or phrase whose meaning is closest to the word in capital letters.
DISCRIMINATE
Differentiate
Blend
Excuse
Spite
Reject
"Discriminate" means differentiate or make a biased decision about how you treat a group or a member of that group, so "differentiate" is the correct answer.