SAT vocab test: Increase Vocabulary: English Verbs

v. recapture
to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone
to retake; to repossess
to rearrange
to enlist men for military or naval service

v. bereave
to eradicate
to make desolate with loneliness and grief
to reconstruct; erect again
to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another

v. legalize
to give the authority of law to
to enlarge in all directions
to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve
to reorganize; put in order again

v. sacrifice
to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar
to deprive of something dishonestly
to conquer
to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other

v. manumit
to set free from bondage
to demonstrate; to reveal; to display
to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena
to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible

v. superintend
to designate as a candidate for any office
to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life
to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement
to render clear and intelligible

v. baste
to come to pass
to separate the parts of by violence
to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking
to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned

v. gyrate
to produce by sexual generation
to revolve
to indulge in profane oaths
to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties

v. litigate
to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions
to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law
to push out or thrust forth
to throw out of order

v. revere
to put in definite or proper order
to regard with worshipful veneration
to overcome by force of will
to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance