AFOQT Vocab - Verbs

Question 1

Acquiesce

Answer 1

to give in: to agree

Question 2

Alleviate

Answer 2

to lessen or relieve discomfort or a bad situation, even if only temporary

Question 3

Amass

Answer 3

to accumulate

Question 4

Ameliorate

Answer 4

to make better or more tolerable

Question 5

Appease

Answer 5

to soothe; to pacify by giving in

Question 6

Assuage

Answer 6

to soothe or comfort; to lessen the pain

Question 7

Atrophy

Answer 7

to waste away from lack of use

Question 8

Augment

Answer 8

to add to or increase

Question 9

Authoritarian

Answer 9

in the same manner as an absolute ruler or dictator

Question 10

Belittle

Answer 10

to insult or degrade

Question 11

Censor

Answer 11

to limit communication to prevent the loss of secret information

Question 12

Censure

Answer 12

to condemn severely for inappropriate or rule breaking behavior

Question 13

Coalesce

Answer 13

to come together as one; to unite

Question 14

Condescend

Answer 14

to patronize; to stoop to someone else’s level in an offensive way

Question 15

Condone

Answer 15

to approve of or allow to happen

Question 16

Denounce

Answer 16

to speak out against or condemn

Question 17

Deride

Answer 17

to ridicule or laugh at contemptuously

Question 18

Desecrate

Answer 18

to profane a holy place

Question 19

Deter

Answer 19

to prevent or stop someone from doing something

Question 20

Digress

Answer 20

to veer off the main topic

Question 21

Discriminate

Answer 21

to differentiate or make a distinction based on some quality, in recent times, usually has the connotation of unfair racial, ethnic, or gender bias

Question 22

Disparage

Answer 22

to belittle or say uncomplimentary things about in an indirect way

Question 23

Divert

Answer 23

to change the course or direction of

Question 24

Drone

Answer 24

to talk on and on in a dull way

Question 25

Efface

Answer 25

to erase or rub away the features of

Question 26

Emulate

Answer 26

to imitate as a role model

Question 27

Engender

Answer 27

to create or produce

Question 28

Enthrall

Answer 28

to hold spellbound; to captivate or charm completely

Question 29

Exemplify

Answer 29

to serve as an example or representative of

Question 30

Extol

Answer 30

to praise

Question 31

Heed

Answer 31

to listen to and obey

Question 32

Languish

Answer 32

to become listless, hopeless, or depressed

Question 33

Meander

Answer 33

to wander slowly or aimlessly

Question 34

Mitigate

Answer 34

to lessen the severity of something, such as a punishment or injury

Question 35

Nullify

Answer 35

to cancel out or make very unimportant

Question 36

Preclude

Answer 36

to prevent or make impossible

Question 37

Refute

Answer 37

to disprove

Question 38

Reproach

Answer 38

to scold or rebuke

Question 39

Repudiate

Answer 39

to reject or deny

Question 40

Rescind

Answer 40

to repeal, to take back formally

Question 41

Squander

Answer 41

to waste

Question 42

Vacillate

Answer 42

to waver between alternatives; to be indecisive

Question 43

Venerate

Answer 43

to revere or treat as something or someone holy

Question 44

Vilify

Answer 44

to cast as a villain; to defame