3.6 Flashcards by Sarah Longfellow | Brainscape

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Aggravate

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Make worse or more severe

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Annihilate

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Destroy utterly

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Capitulate

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Surrender on certain terms

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Extenuate

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Make less serious, diminish

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Fulminate

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To explode, erupt, shout violently

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Instigate

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Provoke, incite

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Mitigate

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Lessen, make milder

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Procrastinate

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To delay, put off

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Propitiate

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Appease, conciliate

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Auspicious

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Promising, favorable

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Egregious

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Remarkably bad, flagrant

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Equivocal

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Vague, ambiguous, questionable

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Expedient

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Suitable, advantageous but not necessarily right

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Fortuitous

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Occurring by chance or accident

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Intrinsic

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Actual, essential or inherent

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Mystical

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Participating in mysterious spiritual experience or knowledge

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Sacreligious

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Irreverent, blasphemous

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Salubrious

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Healthful, promoting health

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Synthetic

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Artificial, manufactured

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Adulbrate

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To outline in a vague way; to foreshadow