Verbs 2 Flashcards

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Efface

A

To erase or rub away the features of

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2
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Emulate

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To imitate as a role model

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3
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Engender

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To create or produce

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4
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Enhance

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To make better or improve

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5
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Enthrall

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To hold spellbound; to captivate or charm completely

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6
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Exemplify

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To serve as an example or representative of

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7
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Expedite

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To make faster or easier

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8
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Extol

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To praise

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9
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Facilitate

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To make easier

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10
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Heed

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To listen to and obey

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11
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Innovate

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To create a new or better way of doing something

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12
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Instigate

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To provoke or stir up a controversy

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13
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Languish

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To become listless, hopeless, or depressed

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14
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Meander

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To wander slowly or aimlessly

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15
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Mitigate

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

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16
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Nullify

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To cancel out or make very unimportant, as if nonexistent

17
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Preclude

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To prevent or make impossible

18
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Refute

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To disprove

19
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Rejuvenate

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To give new energy or strength to, as if made young again

20
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Repress

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To hold down

21
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Reproach

A

To scold or rebuke

22
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Repudiate

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To reject or deny

23
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Rescind

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To repeal, to take back formally

24
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Retract

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To take back or withdraw

25
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Revere

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To worship or respect very deeply

26
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Scrutinize

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To examine closely

27
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Solicit

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To ask for, to seek

28
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Squander

A

To waste

29
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Vacillate

A

To waver between alternatives, to be indecisive

30
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Veer

A

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

31
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Venerate

A

To revere or treat as something or someone holy

32
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Vilify

A

To cast as a villain; to defame