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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 temporarily

Question 3

amass

Answer 3

to accumulate

Question 4

ameliorate

Answer 4

to make better or more tolerable

Question 5

appease

Answer 5

to sooth; to pacify by giving in

Question 6

assuage

Answer 6

to sooth or comfort; to lessen the pain of

Question 7

atrophy

Answer 7

to waste away from lack of use

Question 8

augment

Answer 8

to add to or increase

Question 9

belittle

Answer 9

to insult or degrade

Question 10

censor

Answer 10

to limit communication to prevent the loss of secret information

Question 11

censure

Answer 11

to condemn severely for inappropriate or rule-breaking behavior

Question 12

coalesce

Answer 12

come together as one; to unite

Question 13

condone

Answer 13

to approve of or allow to happen

Question 14

denounce

Answer 14

to speak out against or condemn

Question 15

deride

Answer 15

to ridicule or laugh at contemptuously

Question 16

desecrate

Answer 16

1. to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
2. to divert from a sacred to a profane use or purpose.
3. to treat with sacrilege; profane.

Question 17

deter

Answer 17

to prevent or stop someone from doing something

Question 18

digress

Answer 18

to veer off the main topic

Question 19

disparage

Answer 19

to belittle or say uncomplimentary things about in an indirect way

Question 20

drone

Answer 20

to talk on and on in a dull way

Question 21

efface

Answer 21

to erase or rub away the features of

Question 22

emulate

Answer 22

to imitate as a role model

Question 23

engender

Answer 23

to create or produce

Question 24

enthrall

Answer 24

to hold spellbound; to captivate or charm completely

Question 25

exemplify

Answer 25

to serve as an example or representative of

Question 26

extol

Answer 26

to praise

Question 27

instigate

Answer 27

to provoke or stir up a controversy

Question 28

languish

Answer 28

to become listless, hopeless, or depressed

Question 29

meander

Answer 29

to wander slowly or aimlessly

Question 30

mitigate

Answer 30

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

Question 31

nullify

Answer 31

to cancel out or make very unimportant, as if nonexistent

Question 32

preclude

Answer 32

to prevent or make impossible

Question 33

refute

Answer 33

to disprove

Question 34

reproach

Answer 34

to scold or rebuke

Question 35

repudiate

Answer 35

to reject or deny

Question 36

rescind

Answer 36

to repeal, to take back formally

Question 37

solicit

Answer 37

to ask for, to seek

Question 38

vacillate

Answer 38

to waver between alternatives; to be indecisive

Question 39

veer

Answer 39

to turn aside or swerve away from a course, direction, or purpose

Question 40

venerate

Answer 40

to revere or treat something or someone holy