Question 1

To inflict punishment on; to discipline

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chastise

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avow

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founder

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recant

Question 2

To make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass on upon

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encroach

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instigate

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scintillate

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abnegate

Question 3

To soothe; to pacify by giving in to

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appease

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impugn

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covet

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address

Question 4

Harass; to surround

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beset

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capitulate

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covet

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culminate

Question 5

To go beyond or above; to surpass

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transcend

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lampoon

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usurp

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allege

Question 6

To support; to advocate

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espouse

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polarize

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exacerbate

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recant

Question 7

To condemn severely for doing something bad

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censure

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abhor

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foment

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covet

Question 8

To be indecisive; to waver

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vacillate

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edify

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renounce

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belittle

Question 9

To soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve

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assuage

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emulate

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comprise

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curtail

Question 10

To prevent something from ever happening

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preclude

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abate

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postulate

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beset

Question 11

To help settle differences

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mediate

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exacerbate

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forbear

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curtail

Question 12

To raise high; to glorify

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exalt

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distinguish

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accost

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extricate

Question 13

To protect or deduce from something known; to infer

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extrapolate

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corroborate

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lament

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obfuscate

Question 14

To spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known

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disseminate

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consecrate

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enervate

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covet

Question 15

To make better or more tolerable

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ameliorate

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reiterate

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admonish

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recant

Question 16

To consist of; to be composed of cf constitute compose

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comprise

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delineate

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rebuke

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stipulate

Question 17

To waste

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squander

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sequester

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elicit

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broach

Question 18

To spread or seep through; to penetrate

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permeate

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consecrate

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adulterate

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beget

Question 19

To annoy; to pester; to confuse

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vex

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discriminate

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chastise

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construe

Question 20

To deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce

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abnegate

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pacify

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venerate

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prepossess

Question 21

To annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of

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exasperate

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recant

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deduce

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refute

Question 22

To make gestures especially when speaking or in place of speaking

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gesticulate

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instigate

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allege

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address

Question 23

To seize wrongfully

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usurp

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palliate

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debilitate

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deprecate

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