2-2 Flashcards
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Compensate
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To make up for, pay, remunerate
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Accelerate
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To increase the speed
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Exaggerate
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To overstate, magnify, inflate
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Humiliate
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To lower the self respect of, mortify
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Impale
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To pierce, thrust through
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Jeopardize
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To endanger
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Perpetrate
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To perform, carry out
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Promulgate
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To make known, spread widely
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Resuscitate
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To revive, bring back to life
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Simulate
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To feign, pretend, imitate
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Metaphor
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An implied comparison
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Moron
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Person of low intelligence, fool
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Nonentity
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A person or thing of no importance
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Parity
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Equality, equivalence
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Satellite
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A small planet revolving around a larger one; a person, group, nation dependent on a larger one
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Scroll
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An ancient rolled manuscript
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Simile
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An expressed comparison
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Sovereign
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The supreme ruler, monarch
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Stratum
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A layer or level
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Tenacity
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Unyielding firmness
