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