SAT vocab: Give, Take, Do, Make

Yield

V. To produce/provide

Furnish

V. To give something to someone; provide

Afford

V. To give something to someone; provide

Confer

V. To give something to someone esp. to offer an honor/reward

Bestow

V. To give or present something, esp. as a gift/award

Endow

V. To provide qualities or assets

Administer

V. To manage the distribution of something, often formally

Dispense

V. To give in specific portions

Circulate

V. To move through a closed system

Diffuse

V. To scatter or spread over a wide area

Distribute

V. To give out portions of something

Disperse

V. To scatter or send off in different directions

Disseminate

V. To scatter or spread something widely, esp. information

Infuse

V. To add something to

Instill

V. To cause someone to develop as a feeling or tendency

Acquire

V. To obtain something

Secure

V. To obtain something through effort/negotiation

Procure

V. To get/obtain something esp. effort

Compile

V. To gather things together

Accumulate

V. To gather or collect over time

Amass

V. To gather together/collect in large amounts esp. over a period of time

Accrue

V. To grow gradually over time, esp. money

Garner

V. To gather, acquire, or collect something

Reap

V. To gain as a reward

Cull

V. To choose from a large quantity of things, usually to select the best items from the group

Confiscate

V. To seize something with authority or as penalty esp. someone’s property or possessions

Usurp

V. To take something by force or without any right, esp. a position of power

Extract

V. To remove something

Retain

V. To continue to have or use

Withhold

V. To refuse to hand over

Commit

V. To choose for a particular purpose

Conduct

V. To plan/do something

Implement

V. To carry out a plan, decision, or agreement, or to put one into practice

Undertake

V. To commit oneself to doing something

Intersperse

V. To distribute among or between other things

Intersect

V. To cross at a point

Manipulate

V. To control or influence a person or situation, esp. in an unfair manner; to move with the hands

Maneuver

V. To carry out a planned movement or series of movements in order to gain a positional advantage over an opponent

Synthesize

V. To combine two or more elements or ideas to form a more complex whole

Assemble

V. To put together from parts

Forge

V. To create something through careful effort or skill

Engineer

V. To devise a system or process to achieve a desired result

Render

V. To cause something to happen; to deliver

Configure

V. To arrange something for use

Align

V. To change two things to match each other

Comprise

V. To include or contain as part of a whole

Constitute

V. To form; to make up the whole of something