VERBS Flashcards
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FONDLE
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To touch gently and in a loving way, touch in a sexual way
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EMULSIFY
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If two liquids emulsify or are emulsified, they combine and become a smooth mixture.
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GUILT TRIP
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To make someone feel guilty
(n) strong feeling of guilt
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ELUCIDATE
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To explain or make sth clear
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CANOODLE
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Kiss and hold each other in a sexual way
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CHAFE
(v)
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to make skin damaged or sore by rubbing, or to become damaged and sore like this
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BURROW
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A hole in the ground dug by an animal such as a rabbit
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DE’CANT
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gradually pour liquid without sediment
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DOUBLE DOWN
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continue to do sth in an even more determined way than before
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AS’SUAGE
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make unpleasant feelings less strong
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HARP ON
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Nag about
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A’BET
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to help or encourage someone to do sth illegal
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A’BOLISH
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end an activity or custom officially
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ACCLIMATE TO
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to change to suit different conditions of life, weather
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CLOSE IN ON
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Come closer to
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‘AMPUTATE
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Cut off a part of the body
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ANTAGONIZE
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cause someone to become hostile and angry
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AMP UP
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Make sth stronger, more extreme, ore exciting
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A’TONE
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Make amends or reparation
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BE’SIEGE
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Surround and harass
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A’TROPHY
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To be reduced in size and therefore strength, or to become weaker
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BACKCHANNEL
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To communicate or take part in discussions in a way that is not direct or made public
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RING UP
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to help a customer buy something at a cash register
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DEPRIVE
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prevent from
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**GLEAN sth FROM so**
To collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty
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**PROPAGATE**
To produce a new plant using a parent plant
To spread opinions, lies, or beliefs among a lot of people (**Propaganda** - noun)
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**MAUL**
Attacks that person and injures them with its teeth or claws
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**FLAUNT**
To show or make obvious something you are proud of in order to get admiration
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**HOPSCOTCH**
Skip from place to place; move erratically
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**CONFOUND**
To confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation
(SCIE) To affect the result of a scientific experiment in a way that makes it less clear that one thing causes another
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**FIZZLE OUT**
To gradually end, often in a disappointing or weak way
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**CHIN JUT**
If you jut a part of your body, especially your chin, or if it juts, you push it forward in an aggressive or determined way
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**FLAIL**
To move energetically in an uncontrolled way
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**CATERWAUL**
To make a high unpleasant noise like a cat
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**UNSETTLE**
Cause to feel anxious or uneasy; disturb
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**DOLE OUT**
To give something, usually money, to several people
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**MORPH INTO**
To gradually change, or change someone or something, from one thing to another
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**INFUSE**
to fill someone or something with an emotion or quality
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**BUNGLE**
to do something wrong, in a careless or stupid way
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**DEBILITATE**
to make someone or something physically weak
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**ATTENUATE**
To make something less or weaker
To make something longer and thinner
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**QUIVER**
To shake slightly, often because of strong emotion
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**CHURN OUT**
To produce large quantities of it very quickly
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**RIG**
To arrange dishonestly for the result of something, for example an election, to be changed
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**'BANISH**
Send someone away and not allow to comeback
Get rid of sth completely
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**BANKROLL**
To support a person or activity financially
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**'BARRICADE**
Barrier across the street the prevent movement of opposing forces
Block or defend with improvised barrier
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**BECKON**
Move your hand or head in a way that tells someone to come nearer (beckon someone over)
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**BESTOW**
Give sth as an honour or present
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**BLISTER**
A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning or other damage
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**BLUDGEON**
Hit someone hard and repeatedly with a heavy weapon
Force someone to do sth (bludgeon someone into doing sth)
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**BICKER**
Argue about petty and trivial matters
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**BIFURCATE**
To divided into 2 parts (roads, rivers,branches,etc)
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**BUDGE**
If sth will or can not budge, it wont move
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**BULLDOZE**
To destroy buildings and make an area flat with a bulldozer
To force someone to do sth, although they might or want to
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**BUSK**
Perform music / entertainment in the street for monetary donation
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**BYPASS**
To avoid sth by going around it
To ignore a rule or official authority
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**CATAPULT**
Throw someone/sth in great force
**Catapulted into sth** - suddenly experience particular state
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**FEIGN**
to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc.
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**CATALYZE**
To make a chemical reaction happen or hapen more quickly by acting as a catalyst
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**CHORTLE**
Laugh in a breathy, gleeful way, chuckle
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**'CIRCUMVENT**
To avoid sth, esp cleverly or illegally
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**CLAMOR**
(v) To make a loud complaint or demand
(n) a loud complaint about sth or a demand for sth
Loud noise, esp made by people's voices
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**COERCE**
Persuade an unwilling person to do sth by using force or threats
Obtain sth by using force or threats
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**COMMEMORATE**
To remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, esp by a public ceremony or by making a statue of special building
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**COMPOSE**
Calm / settle one's thoughts
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**CONCEDE**
Surrender or yield
Admit sth is true after first denying or resisting
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**CONDONE**
Accept and allow (wrongful act) to continue
Approve or sanction sth with reluctance
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**CONDESCEND**
Condescend to do sth
- Agree to do sth that you don’t consider to be good enough for your social position
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**FROWN (at)**
Bring your eyebrows together so that there are lines on your face above your eyes, often while turning the corners of your mouth downwards, showing that you are annoyed, worried, sad, or thinking hard
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**TETHER**
A rope or chain used to tie, especially an animal, to a post or other fixed place, usually so that it can move freely within a small area
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**DEBUNK**
prove that sth is not true
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**CATAPULT**
Throw someone/sth in great force
Catapulted into sth - suddenly experience particular state
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**CATALYZE**
To make a chemical reaction happen or happen more quickly by acting as a catalyst
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**CHORTLE**
Laugh in a breathy, gleeful way, chuckle
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**CHURN**
**Stomach churns** you feel ill bc you're nervous
**(Churn sth out) **Produce large amounts of sth quickly, usually sth of low quality
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**CONVENE**
To bring together a group of people for a meeting, or to meet for a meeting
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**CONCEDE**
To admit, often unwilling, that sth is true
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**CONSOLE**
To make someone who is sad or disappointed feel better, usually by giving comfort or sympathy
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**CONSUMMATE**
Make (relationship/marriage) complete by having sexual intercourse
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**COERCE**
Persuade someone forcefully to do sth that they're unwilling to do
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**CO'RROBORATE**
Add proof to an account, statement, idea with new info
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**COURT**
Have a romantic relationship with someone that you hope to marry
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**CRUCIFY**
Kill someone by tying them with nails to a cross and leaving them to die
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**CONVENANT**
Agree by lease, deed or other contract
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**CROAK**
To die
(sound) deep rough sound of frogs or crows
(sound) rough voice when having sore / dry throat
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**CROUCH**
Bend your knees and lower yourself so that you're close to the ground and leaning forward slightly
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**CRY FOUL**
Say that sth that has happened is unfair or illegal
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**RELINQUISH**
Give up something such as a responsibility or claim
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**CULL**
Cull animals - kill to cut down the numbers of them (usually the weaker members)
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**CURTAIL**
Reduce in extent or quantity
Impose a restriction on
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**CUT LOOSE**
To behave in uncontrolled, wild way
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**DABBLE**
Take a slight and not serious interest in a subject, try a particular activity for a short period
Dabble the water to move around
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**DEBASE**
Make sth less good or less valueable
Make someone morally worse or less deserving of respect
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**DEFLECT**
To change direction after hitting something or to cause sth to do this
To cause someone to change from or stop what they were intending to do
To avoid sth such as criticism, blame or a question being directed at you
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**DELEGATE**
Entrust tasks/responsibility to another person
A person sent or authorized to represent others
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**DELUDE**
Make someone believe sth that is not true
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**DEPRIVE**
to take something, especially something necessary or pleasant, away from someone:
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**DEPRECIATE**
Cause sth to lose value, esp over time
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**DEPUTIZE FOR**
To act or speak for another person, esp by temporarily doing their job
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**DESPISE**
To feel a strong dislike for someone or sth bc you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value
**Despise so for sth** = feel contempt / feel repugnance for
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**DETAIN**
Keep someone from proceeding, hold back
Keep someone in official custody, typically for questioning about a crime or in politically sensitive situations
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**DEVIATE FROM**
To do sth that is different from the usual or common way of behaving
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**DILATE**
Become wider, larger, more open (eyes)
Condition of being stretched or enlarged beyond normal size (medical)
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**DIGRESS**
The feeling of not liking someone or sth and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect
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**DISLODGE SO/STH FROM STH**
To remove sth or so, esp by force, from a fixed position
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**DISSIMILATE**
change a sound in a word to unlike the sounds near it
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**DISSIPATE**
squander, fritter away
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**DISPERSE**
spread over a wide area
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**DISSUADE**
To persuade someone not to do sth
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**DITHER**
Be indecisive
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**DREDGE UP**
Start talking or thinking again about sth unpleasant that happened long ago
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**DROP DEAD**
Die suddenly unexpectedly
Intense scorn / dislike (why don't you just drop dead?)
Rudely tell someone that're annoying to go away or be quiet
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**ELICIT**
To get or produce sth, esp info or a reaction
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**ELUDE**
If sth that you want eludes you, you don't succeed in achieving it
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**ENAMOR**
**Be enamored of **
- Love / like / admire something
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**THWART**
to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
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**ENTWINED**
Wind or twist together
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**ENUCIATE**
Say or pronounce clearly
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**EQUIVOCATE**
Use ambiguous language to conceal the truth or avoid speaking directly or honestly
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**EXONERATE SO FROM STH**
Show or state that someone / sth is not guilty of sth
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**EXTENUATE**
Cause a wrong act to be judged less seriously by giving reasons for it
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**FARM STH OUT**
To give work to other people to do
Put a child into care of others, foster
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**FEED OFF**
Support, gain energy from
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**FIDDLE**
Act dishonestly in order to get sth for yourself, to change sth dishonestly, esp for your advantage
(+ with) move things about or touch things with no particular purpose
Violin stick
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**FIXATE ON**
Think about sth too much and find it difficult to stop
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**FLAIL**
(v) Wave / swing wildly
Beat / flog
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**FLINCH**
To make a sudden, small movement bc of pain or fear
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**FLIP SOMEONE OFF**
Show someone in an offensive way that you are annoyed with them or do not like them by turning the back of your hand towards them and putting your middle finger up
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**FONDLE**
To touch gently and in a loving way, touch in a sexual way
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**FORAGE FOR**
To go from place to place for things that you can eat or use
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**FORECLOSE ON**
(banks) to take back property that was bought with borrowed money bc the money wasn't being paid back as formally agreed
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**FREEBASE**
Smoke a specially prepared form of drug cocaine
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**FROWN ON/UPON**
To disapprove of sth
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**FUMIGATE**
To use poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria etc
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**FUNNEL (money, goods, or info)**
Cause it to be sent there as it becomes available
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**EMANICIPATE**
Give people social or political freedom and rights
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**ELUCIDATE**
Explain something or make sth clear
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**EQUIVOCATE**
To speak in a way that intentionally not clear or confuse other people to hide the truth
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**GARNISH**
Decorate or embellish esp with food
Take amount from someone's wages to pay back money they owe
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**GAWK AT**
Look at sth or someone in a stupid or rude way
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**GIST WITH**
chat or gossip with
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**GROVEL**
Behave with too much respect towards someone to show that you're very eager to please them
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**GUERILLA**
A member of a band of persons engaged in warfare not as part of a regular army but as an independent unit making surprise raids behind enemy lines.
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**GUSH OVER**
To express oneself extravagantly or emotionally
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**GYRATE**
Turn spiral, dance in a sexual way
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**HASTEN**
Make sth happen sooner or more quickly
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**HOODWINK**
Deceive / trick
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**IMBUE STH/SO WITH STH**
To fill sth or someone with a particular feeling, quality or idea
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**IMPART**
To communicate info to someone
To give sth a particular feeling, quality or taste = impart sth to sth
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**IMPINGE ON**
Impact negatively on, affect sth in a way that is unwanted
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**IMPOUND**
Take sth away bc you have broken the law
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**INCENTIVISE**
Make someone wanna do sth
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**INCRIMINATE**
Make someone appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing
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**INDICT**
If a law court or a grand jury indicts someone, it accuses them officially of a crime
= be indicted on a charge
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**INDUCT**
introduce someone formally or with a special ceremony to an organization or group, or to beliefs or idea
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**INFILTRATE**
secretly enter or join to get info or do harm
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**INFRINGE ON**
To take away or limit rights or freedom of someone
=trespass=encroach
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**HASTEN**
Make sth happen sooner or more quickly
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**INOCULATE**
to introduce material (as a vaccine) into the body especially by injection to protect against or treat a disease
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**INSINUATE**
To suggest, without being direct, that sth unpleasant is true
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**INSEMINATE**
Introduce semen into a woman by natural or artificial means
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**INTUIT**
Know or understand sth bc of a feeling that you have rather than bc of facts or what someone has told you
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**INVOKE**
To use a law in order to achieve sth, or to mention sth in order to explain sth or to support your opinion or action
To request help from so, esp a god, when you want to improve a situation
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**JAB**
Poke so sth roughly or quickly with pointed thing
Get jabbed = get injected / vaccinated
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**KOWTOW**
Show too much respect to someone in authority, always doing what you are told and changing what you do in order to please them
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**BLUBBER**
Cry in a noisy way like a child
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**RECKON**
Think or believe
Consider or have the opinion that something is as stated
Calculate an amount
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**MANSPLAIN**
Explain in a way that suggests the other is stupid, used esp when a man explains sth to a woman that she already understands
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**MATRICULATE**
To be admitted to study at a uni / college
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**MEDDLE**
** (in)** interfere / busy oneself with unconcerned / unnecessary things
**(with) **touch, handle things without permission
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**MISCONSTRUE**
Interpret wrongly
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**MOONLIGHT**
To work at an extra job, without telling your main employer
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**MORTIFY**
To make someone very embarrassed
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**MUTILATE**
Damage sth severely, esp by violently removing a part
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**DEPRECIATE**
to (cause something to) lose value, especially over time
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**OGLE**
Stare at in a lecherous manner
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**ORCHESTRATE**
To arrange or write a piece of music so that it can be played by an orchestra
To arrange sth carefully, sometimes unfairly to achieve a wanted result
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**OR'DAIN**
To officially make someone a priest or other religious leader
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**OSTRACIZE**
Exclude someone from a society or group
Banish from a city by popular votes (ancient greek)
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**PACIFY**
Cause someone who is angry or upset to be calm and satisfied
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**PARSE**
(grammar) Separate a sentence into grammatical parts, such as subject
(computing) examine computer data and change it into a form that can be easily read or understood
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**PARTAKE OF**
To eat or drink
Partake in = involved with or take part in
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**PERJURE**
Tell a lie in a law court, after promising formally to tell the truth
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**POISE**
Adjust, hold or carry equilibrium evenly
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**PLIE**
A movement in which a ballet dancer bends the knees and straightens them again, usually with the feet turned out and heels firmly on the ground
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**PRE'CIPITATE**
Cause a situation to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, sooner than expected
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**PROPEL**
drive, push or move in particular direction, typically forward
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**PUMMEL**
To hit someone or sth repeatedly, esp with your fists
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**PUR'PORT**
Pretend to be or to do sth, esp in a way that is not easy to believe
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**QUIVER**
tremble / shake with a slight rapid motion
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**RANSACK**
To search a place or container in a violent and careless way
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**RAVEL**
Separate a knot, mass of threads, into single reads
To become/make someone become more confused (ravel sth up)
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**RAVISH**
Give great pleasure to someone (mostly passive)
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**REBUT**
Claim or prove that an evidence or accusation is false
Drive back or repel
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**RE'PEL**
To force someone or something to stop moving towards you or attacking you
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**RECANT**
To announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them
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**RECOIL**
To move back bc of fear or disgust (=dislike/disapproval)
To refuse to accept an idea/principle, feeling strong dislike/disapproval
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**RECON/RECONNAISSANCE**
Conduct a preliminary and esp exploratory survey of
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**RECTIFY**
Correct sth to make it right
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**RE'ENACT**
To repeat the actions of an event that happened in the past as a hobby or as a performance
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**REITERATE**
Say or do over again repeatedly
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**RE'LINQUISH**
To give up sth such as responsibility or claim
To unwillingly stop holding or keeping sth
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**'RELISH**
Enjoy greatly, make pleasant to the taste
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**RE'PEAL**
If a gov repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force
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**RE'SCIND**
To make a law, agreement, order or decision no longer have any legal power
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**RESONATE**
Produce, increase or fill with sound by vibrating objects that are near
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**RESONATE WITH SOMEONE / SOMETHING**
Have particular meaning or importance for someone
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**RIVAL**
To be as good, clever, beautiful as someone or sth else
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**ROOFIE**
Being roofie = being spiked
Being drugged for an assault/rape
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**RUN AMOK**
Behave without control in a wild or dangerous manner
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**SCATHE**
To hurt or injure someone
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**SCAVENGE**
Look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish
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**SCRIMP**
Save money by spending less than is necessary to reach acceptable standard
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**SELF-DEPRICATE**
Modest/critical/belittle/undervalue oneself
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**IN'CUR**
| ɪnˈkɜr
To experience something bad as a result of actions you have taken
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**'SHAMBLE**
move with slow, shuffling awkward gait
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**SCRIMP**
Save money by spending less than necessary to reach an acceptable standard
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**SNIPE AT**
To shoot at someone from a position where you can't be seen
To criticize someone unpleasantly
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**SNAG**
Sth caught on a sharp object and tears, get or catch sth by acting quickly
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**'SO-DO-MIZE**
| ˈsädəˌmīz
Anal intercourse
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**SMEAR**
To spread a liquid or thick substance over a surface
To publicly accuse someone of sth unpleasant, unreasonable or unlikely to be true to harm their reputation
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**'SPE-CU-LATE**
Invest in sth with hope a gain and risk of loss
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**SPRITZ**
Spray a mass of very small drops of liquid out of a container, usually by pressing a part of it
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**SQUINT**
Eyes squint
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**SQUOOSH**
Squeeze or crush into a soft, liquid mass
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**STASH**
(stashed away) Store sth safely and secretly, a hideout place
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**'STO-MACH**
To be able to accept an unpleasant idea or watch sth unpleasant
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**SUB-'SIDE**
| səbˈsaɪd
Become less intense or severe
(water) go down lower or normal level
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**SUB-'STAN-TI-ATE**
| səbˈstæn.ʃi.eɪt
Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of
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**SUB-'POE-NA**
| səˈpēnə
To order someone to go to a law court to answer questions
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**SUC-'CUMB**
Loose the determination to oppose sth, to accept defeat
To die of suffer badly from illness
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**SUCK WIND**
To breath hard after exertion or unable to catch your breath after an activity
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**CA-'NOO-DLE**
| kəˈnuː.dəl
kiss and hold each other in a sexual way
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**T-BONE**
An accident in which the front of one vehicle hits the side of another vehicle hard
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**'SUMMIT**
| ˈsʌm.ɪt
reach the summit of a mountain or hill
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**SUR-'MISE**
| sɚˈmaɪz
Suppose sth is true without evidence
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**SWERVE**
Change or cause to change direction abruptly
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**'TARNISH**
| ˈtɑːr.nɪʃ
Make (esp of metal) become less bright or different color
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**TAUNT**
Intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them
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**'TES-TI-FY**
| ˈtestəˌfī
(of a person) Speak seriously about sth, esp. in a law court, or to give or provide proof
(of a fact) show sth or prove sth is true
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**'TAM-PER**
Interfere with sth to cause damage / make unauthorized alterations
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**'REC-TI-FY**
| ˈrek.tə.faɪ
To correct something or make something right
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**'TIN-GLE**
To have a feeling as if a lot of sharp points are being put quickly and lightly into your body
When you tingle with an emotion, such as excitement or fear, you feel it very strongly
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**'PRIC-KLE**
If thin, sharp objects prickle you, they cause slight pain by touching against your skin
If part of your body prickles, it feels as if a lot of sharp points are touching it because you are frightened or excited
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**'STI-PU-LATE**
Demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of a bargain or agreement
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**'WI-THER**
to become weak and dry and decay
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**A-'VERT**
| əˈvɝːt
to prevent something bad from happening
to turn away your eyes or thoughts
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**DE-'CE-LA-RATE**
| ˌdiːˈsel.ə.reɪt
Reduce or cause to reduce in speed
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**JUMBLE UP**
To mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order
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**TRA-'VERSE**
Move or travel through an area
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**'UM-PIRE**
to be the umpire of a game
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**UN-'RA-VEL**
Undo, untangle
Investigate and solve or explain sth complicated or puzzling
To free from complication or difficulty, make clear or plain
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**UT-TER**
To say sth or to make a sound with your voice
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**VEND**
To sell sth
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**'VE-NE-RATE**
| ˈven.ɚ.eɪt
Honour over very much respect a person or thing
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**VET**
To examine sth or someone carefully to make certain that they are acceptable or suitable
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**'VI-LI-FY**
Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner
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**WALLOW IN**
Allow yourself to enjoy sth completely
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**WALTZ IN/OFF**
Walk swh quickly and confidently, that annoys other people
Waltz in = barge in
Waltz off = walk away with
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**WHEEZE**
Make a high, rough noise while breathing bc of some breathing difficulty
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**WHIFF**
To have an unpleasant smell
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**YANK**
Pull sth forcefully with a quick movement
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**MAC-GY-VER**
Make, form, or repair (something) with what is conveniently on hand
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**HAGGLE**
To attempt to decide on a price or conditions that are acceptable to the person selling the goods and the person buying them, usually by arguing
| **HAGGLE OVER / ABOUT**
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**'HEC-KLE**
to interrupt a public speech or performance with loud, unfriendly statements or questions
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**PLOD**
Walk slowly and heavily
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**TRANS-'CEND**
| trænˈsend
Go further, rise above, or be more important or better than something, especially a limit
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**'SAL-VAGE**
To save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood
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**E-'MAS-CU-LATE**
| ɪˈmæs.kjə.leɪt
To reduce the effectiveness of something
To make a man feel less male by taking away his power and confidence
To castrate (= remove the male sexual parts of) a man or male animal, or to remove the male parts of a plant
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**'PLUN-DER**
To steal goods violently from a place, especially during a war
To steal or remove something precious from something, in a way that does not consider moral laws or is more severe than it needs to be
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**CURVE GRADES**
| GRADE ON A CURVE
Modifying each student's grade to raise the average
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**ZING**
Move rapidly, making a high-pitched ringing or whining noise
Attack or criticize sharply
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**OB-'JEC-TI-FY**
To treat a person like a tool or toy, as if they had no feelings, opinions, or rights of their own
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**DIS-COM-'BO-BU-LATE**
| ˌdɪs.kəmˈbɑː.bjə.leɪt
To confuse someone or make someone feel uncomfortable
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**AC-'QUIT**
To decide officially in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a particular crime
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**REDACT**
To obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release
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**U-'SURP**
To take control of a position of power, especially without having the right to
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**'TOP-PLE**
To lose balance and fall down
**Topple over**
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**EN-'DORSE**
| ɪnˈdɔːrs
To make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
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**REVILE**
| rɪˈvaɪl
To criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone
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**INCUR**
To experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken
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**MA'LIGN**
Causing or intending to cause harm or evil
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**CON-'COCT**
| kənˈkɑːkt
to add extra layers or parts to a thing, a story, or usually food, in a way that is not planned
to invent an excuse, story, explanation to deceive
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**O-'PINE**
To express an opinion
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**EXTRAPOLATE**
guess or think about what might happen using info that's already known
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**SPLURGE ON**
spend a lot of money
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**MUTILATE**
To damage sth severely, esp by violently removing a part
To destroy an idea or piece of entertainment
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**'STY-MIE**
prevent sth from happening or someone from achieving a purpose
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**GET SPIKED**
get roofied
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**AB'HOR**
hate a way of behaving or thinking, often bc you think it's not moral
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**GRIN**
To draw back the lips so as to show the teeth especially in amusement or laughter
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**PESTER**
To annoy someone by doing or asking for something repeatedly
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**AMELIORATE**
To make a bad or unpleasant situation better
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**LOBOTOMIZE**
A medical operation in which cuts are made in or near the front part of the brain, used in the past for the treatment of severe mental problems
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**AB'SCOND**
To go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere
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**DON**
To put on a piece of clothing
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**PURPORT**
To pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe
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**BESMIRCH**
Say bad thing about someone to make others think of them that way
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**WINCE**
Show pain or sudden emberrassment for a short time in the face, with moving head back at the same time
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**ROUGHHOUSE**
fight in a way that is not serious
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**SPRITZ**
Spray small drops of liquid of of a container
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**CHASTISE**
rebuke or reprimand severly
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**CLOBBER**
to hit someone or sth hard and repeatedly
to punish someone
to harm someone financially
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**UPKEEP**
taking care of sth in good condition
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**MARSHAL**
Bring people together to achieve a particular aim
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**ZAP**
To get rid of, to kill, to destroy
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**ATTAIN**
gain, achieve
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**BYPASS**
workaround
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**SPLURGE**
An act of spending money extravagantly
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**RACKETEER**
To make money from illegal activities such as threatening people or selling worthless, immoral, or illegal goods or services
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**SQUANDER**
waste money or time in a reckless and foolish way
lose a chance
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**GRUB**
excessively digging, turning over earth to seearch for sth
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**SOLICIT**
| səˈlɪs.ɪt
to ask someone for money, help, or info
ask for sth in a determined and persuasive way
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**MOTHERLODE**
sth that supplies large amount of thing, quality that you want
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**CASTRATE**
remove the testicles
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**'IN-STI-GATE**
To cause an event to happen my making set of actions beforehand to launch
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**'EX-PE-DITE**
to accelerate / speed up the process of sth
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**'SA-TI-ATE**
| ˈseɪ.ʃi.eɪ
satisfy yourself or a need, esp with food and pleasure so you can't have more
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**ABDICATE**
If a king or a queen abdicates, they declare that they no longer want to be a king / queen
**Abdicate responsiblity**: stop controlling / managing sth that you're in charge of
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**ABROGATE**
Synonyms with **ABOLISH**
end a law agreement or customs formally
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**SUBJUGATE**
defeat a country, rule them and give them no freedom
**Subjugate sth to sth: **sacrifice, compromise sth to accommodate others' needs & wishes
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**RESURGENCE**
A rising again into life of sth
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**SPLUTTER**
Speak in quick and confused way, with short, unclear noise
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**EMOTE**
show emotions clearly and frankly
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**DECIMATE**
To kill a large number of sth to reduce their populations
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**JEER (AT)**
laugh or shout insult at someone to show no respect for them
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**SNIGGER (at/about)**
Laugh at someone/sth in a silly and unkind way
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**JILT**
end a romantic relationship in an unkind way
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**INCITE**
encourage someone to do sth or feel sth violent or unpleasant
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**REDACT**
remove words or info before getting texts public, censor
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**BIZZLE**
say goodbye with a V sign - peace out
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**BARRACK**
shout loudly to interrupt someone you disagree with
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**INDENT**
make a space at the edge or on the surface of sth
make an official request for goods
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**DISPERSE**
Spread across or move away over a large area, to make sth do this
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**REGALE**
entertain someone with stories and jokes
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**ZAP**
- to get rid of or kill sth/someone intentionally
- to go swhere or do th quick
- to use e-device to change channels, to avoid ads
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**RUPTURE**
cause sth to explode, break or tear
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**BACKSLIDE**
Go back to do sth bad when you've been doing good
Fall off the wagon
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**GLIDE**
move or progress without difficulty or effort
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**NAB**
take sth suddenly
catch, arrest a criminal
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**GAG**
feel like wanting to vomit
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**FLUNK**
fail an exam
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**BLAZE**
burn brightly and strongly
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**METASTASIZE**
transform to be more dangerous
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**TAPER**
to become gradually narrowed at one end, or make sth do that
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**PEDDLE**
sell things, esp take them to a different place
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**SCURRY**
move quickly with small footsteps
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**EXTRAPOLATE**
predict by projecting known data or past experience
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**SIDELINE**
stop someone taking active or important part of sth
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**SHIRK**
**SHIRK ONE'S DUTY**: avoid work or duty, esp when it's difficult or unpleasant
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**REPROACH**
**reproach someone for sth:** to criticize someone, for not being successful or doing what is expected
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**ASCRIBE**
believe or say sth caused by sth else
| ASCRIBE STH TO STH
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**ECLIPSE**
make another person less important, and famous
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**GESTATE**
develop over time (thought, idea, plan)
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**REBUKE**
criticize sth strongly bc you disapprove of what person has said or done
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**STINT (ON)**
provide, take, use small amount of sth
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**CONVOY**
travel with a vehicle or group of people to make certain that they arrive safely
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**PROVISION**
supply with food, drink, equipment, etc
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**ENCROACH**
take control or possession of sth in a gradual way and often without being noticed
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**IMPLORE**
beg or ask earnestly, beseech
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**DABBLE**
take a slight and not serious interest, in a very frivolous and superficial way
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**COLLATE**
collect info to see similaries and differences
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**TITILLATE**
make someone excited intentionally but only a little, usually with sexual images or descriptions
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**RECOMPENSE**
give someone sth as a payment or reward for efforts or loss
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**RELISH**
like or enjoy sth
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**INFLICT**
force someone to experience sth very unpleasant
| **be inflicted on**
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**ABASE (yourself)**
make yourself seem to be less important to not deserve respect
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**UNDERGIRD**
support sth by forming a strong base for it
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**DISSENT**
A strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, esp about an official suggestion or plan or popular belief
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**DISSENT**
differ in opinion
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**APPREHEND**
to catch and arrest someone who hasn't obeyed the law
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**PRESAGE**
predict, indicate an event going to happen
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**INOCULATE**
introduce a substance into a body (vaccine) to enable immunation
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**GRIPE (about)**
complain continuously about sth in a way that is annoying
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**FLOUNDER**
Experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next
Move awkwardly, in an awkward situation
Have serious financial or economic problems
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**RECOUP**
regain money that’s lost
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**TETHER**
tye or secure sth to a fixed point
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**TETHER**
tye or secure sth to a fixed point
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**THROW CURVES**
Present an unexpected challenge of obstacle
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**SHUN**
Avoid or used to accept something
Ignore someone because you can’t accept their behaviour
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**DREAD**
Feel extremely worried or frightened about sth going to happen
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**DREAD**
Feel extremely worried or frightened about sth going to happen
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WALLOP
Hit someone hard with the palm or sth held in the hand
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ADMONISH
Warn, tell someone that they have done sth wrong
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BE OUSTED
Force someone to leave a position, power, job etc
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SHACKLE
If you’re shackled by sth, it prevents you from doing what you want
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CURTAIL
Stop sth before it’s finished, or to reduce or limit sth
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ACCRUE
Gain, increase in the number of amount over time
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SPUTTER
Fluster
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MULTIGRAPH
Type of duplicating press that allows for mass production of docs
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ERODE
Rub against sth gradually till its weaken and damaged
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COLLATE
Assemble in proper order
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COLLUDE WITH
Act together secretly and illegally to cheat someone
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STRADDLE
Sit and stand with your legs on either side of sth
Combine different styles and or subjects
Someone straddles a line, such as a border or river, exists on each side of it or goes across it
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PUMMEL
hit someone or sth repeatedly, esp with your fists
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CACKLE
make the loud, unpleasant sound of a chicken
Laugh in a loud and high voice
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HUDDLE (AROUND)
Come close together in a group
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HUDDLE (UP)
sit or stand in a bent position with your arms and legs close to your body, esp bc of cold and fear
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TRANSMUTE
transform, change in form, nature, or substance
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GORGE
eat a large amounts greedily, fill oneself with food
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ENGULF
Gorge, devour
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GUFFAW
to laugh loudly at silly thing someone done
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ANNUNCIATE
Announce
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ENUNCIATE
pronounce words, clearly and distinctly
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CAVORT
Jump or dance around excitedly, sexually
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ABSCOND
Go away and secretly to escape from somewhere
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PEDDLE
Sell things is best by taking them to different places
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MELD
Combine
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WANE
become weaker in strength or influence
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PESTER
behave in annoying manner towards someone by doing or asking for sth repeatedly
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PONTIFICATE
speak or write and give your opinion about sth as if you knew everything about if and as if only your opinion was correct
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JIMMY
force a window or lock open with a jimmy
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CUT TIES
reach a breaking point in your relationship
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BOOTSTRAP
funding and growing business using personal saving
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BOOTSTRAP
improve your situation without helps of others
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SAVOR
enjoy food or experience slowly
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TEETER
Appear to be about to fall while moving or standing
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TUSSLE
have difficult disagreements or strong arguments
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LEECH
To get money food from other people, especially without working for it or doing anything to deserve it
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BERATE
Scold or criticize angrily
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MEANDER
If river, Stream, Road meanders, it follows a route that’s not straight or direct
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MEANDER AROUND
Walk slowly without any clear direction
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DOUSE STH / SO IN / WITH STH
Make something or someone wet
To end something by putting water on it (extinguish)
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EVISCERSATE
Remove the organs from the inside of a body
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SQUISH
crush sth that is soft
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ENRAPTURE
delight, give someone great pleasure
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HECKLE
interrupt social event by inappropriate or unfriendly statements
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DETONATE
explode
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AMELIORATE
improve
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EMULATE
copy sth achieved by someone else and try to carry it out like they do
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CROW
Long and loud sharp cry from a rooster
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UNDERMINE
erode
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ENSHRINE
contain or keep sth as if in a sacred place
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GRIFT
steal
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QUELL
Forcefully stop
Completely stop / end sth
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QUELL
Forcefully stop
Completely stop / end sth
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STRADDLE
sit or stand with your legs on either side of sth
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STRADDLE
exist on each side of it goes across it
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STRADDLE
combine different styles or subjects
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APPEASE
Get rid of unpleasant feelings
Prevent further disagreement by letting opposing side have what they want
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HERALD
Signal sth is approaching
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DWINDLE
Become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number
Gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level
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DWINDLE
Become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number
Gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level
448
BABBLE
Talk or say sth in a quick , confused, excited or silly way
449
OUTPACE
Surpass or exceed
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REVOLT
if a large number of people revolt, they refuse to be controlled or ruled, and take action against authority, often violent action
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REVOLT
if a large number of people revolt, they refuse to be controlled or ruled, and take action against authority, often violent action
452
VERVE
vigor and spirit or enthusiasm
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BOLSTER
support or improve sth or make it stronger
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OBLITERATE
remove all signs of sth, destroy
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JABBER
Speak or say sth quickly in a way that is difficult to understand
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SOMERSAULT
roll or jump, either forwards or backwards, turning over completely, with body over your head and finish with your head on top again
= flip, cartwheel
457
DISEMBARK
leave a ship, aircraft after a journey
get off a plane, train or boat
458
LANGUISH
exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time
weak or fail to improve
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CHIDE
scold, reprimand
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TAUNT
to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing unkindly at them
461
RIDDLE
make a lot of holes in sth
462
WHET
sharpen the blade of knife
463
PERCOLATE
if a liquid percolates, it moves slowly through a substance with very small holes in it
464
CONSPIRE
plan secretly with other people to do sth bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes
Conspire with someone against sth
465
WATERBOARD
Splashing water on someone’s face
466
SMIZE
smile with your eyes
467
SCHLEP
To move yourself or an object with effort and difficulty
468
FRATENIZE
Meet someone socially, esp someone who belongs to an opposing army or team, or has a different social position
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FRATENIZE
Meet someone socially, esp someone who belongs to an opposing army or team, or has a different social position
