Verbs Flashcards
To be amenable to something
“More and more problems are proving to be amenable to computational solutions.”
- Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled. Syns- compliant, acquiescent
- Capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible. Syns- receptive, responsive, reactive
scything
“Both men and women worked all summer, scything the high silken grain before the coming of the first September frost.”
cutting with a scythe
To dawdle
He dawdled about giving his son the experience to succeed him 
To waste time, to be slow
To move slowly and Italy in a particular
Synonym to linger to Dally to take time to drag once to stroll to amble
To snipe
Society sniped openly at at Princess Alice
To make a sly or petty verbal attack
Synonyms to ridicule to scoff to taunt to sneer
Scudding
From the Palace lawn, they could watch flotillas of sailboats scudding before the wind
To move fast in a straight line or as if driven by the wind
Synonyms to speed to raise streak to sweep to shoot
To exhort
I exhorted her to be a good child
To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something
Synonyms to urge to encourage to call to charge
Bequeath
He stamped out Russian habits, the good customs, the usages, bequeathed by a nation
To pass something down or to leave something to someone like an inheritance
To hand on, to hand down to pass on
Blight
The new Empress’s is receptions for the ladies of Saint Petersburg were blighted by the same shyness
To have a severely detrimental effect on
To ruin to wreck to spoil to disrupt
to souse
Has it not staggered from bloodshed to bloodshed and from war to war, till it soused Europe and Russia in streams of Blood?
Soak in or drench with liquid.
synonyms: saturate, drench, soak
To gibe
It would not be necessary for the Russian army to fire even a single shot, gibed the drawing-room generals.
To make insulting or mocking remarks
Syn: jeer taunt scoff mock
