Verbs

Question 1

• flaunt

Answer 1

• display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.

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Question 2

• shrivel

Answer 2

• wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.

(the flowers simply shrivelled up.)

Question 3

• case (informal)

Answer 3

• reconnoitre (a place) before carrying out a robbery.

This young man did have a history of burglary and may well have been casing a construction site.

Question 4

• hearsay

Answer 4

• information received from other people which cannot be substantiated.

(Post a source, otherwise this is hearsay and is inadmissible.)

Question 5

• upend

Answer 5

• set or turn (something) on its end or upside down.

Question 6

• vie

Answer 6

• compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something.

Question 7

• fend

Answer 7

• look after and provide for oneself, without any help from others.

Question 8

• irk

Answer 8

• irritate; annoy.

Question 9

• commodify

Answer 9

• turn into or treat as a commodity.

Question 10

• indulge

Answer 10

• allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of.

Question 11

• enshroud

Answer 11

• envelop completely and hide from view.

Question 12

• vacillate

Answer 12

• waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.

Question 13

• exhilarate

Answer 13

• make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.

Question 14

• alienate

Answer 14

• make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

Question 15

• venerate

Answer 15

• regard with great respect; revere.

Question 16

• bewilder

Answer 16

• cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused.

Question 17

• depict

Answer 17

• represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form.

Question 18

• wield

Answer 18

• hold and use (a weapon or tool).

Question 19

• devise

Answer 19

• plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.

Question 20

• imbue

Answer 20

• inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).

Question 21

• grill (informal)

Answer 21

• subject (someone) to intense questioning or interrogation.

Question 22

• drop away

Answer 22

• to become weaker or smaller in amount.

Question 23

• prop

Answer 23

• support or keep in position.

Question 24

• color

Answer 24

• influence, especially in a negative way; distort.

Question 25

• come away

Answer 25

• be left with a specified feeling, impression, or result after doing something.

Question 26

• muckrake

Answer 26

• search out and publicize scandal about famous people.

Question 27

• thwart

Answer 27

• prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

Question 28

• undercut

Answer 28

• offer goods or services at a lower price than (a competitor).

Question 29

• contract

Answer 29

• catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent).

Question 30

• concur

Answer 30

• be of the same opinion; agree.

Question 31

• dispirit

Answer 31

• cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope.

Question 32

• pine

Answer 32

• suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart.

Question 33

• conflagrate

Answer 33

• to set on fire.

Question 34

• consign

Answer 34

• to give or send, or to put someone in an unpleasant place or situation.

Question 35

• fester

Answer 35

• (of a negative feeling or a problem) become worse or more intense, especially through long-term neglect or indifference.

Question 36

• commingle (literary)

Answer 36

• mix; blend.

Question 37

• commune

Answer 37

• feel in close spiritual contact with.

Question 38

• engulf

Answer 38

• powerfully affect (someone); overwhelm.

Question 39

• transpire

Answer 39

• prove to be the case.

Question 40

• knit

Answer 40

• tighten (one’s eyebrows) in a frown of concentration, disapproval, or anxiety.

Question 41

• delve

Answer 41

• research or make painstaking inquiries into something.

Question 42

• sound

Answer 42

• to measure the depth of.

Question 43

• fish

Answer 43

• try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone.

Question 44

• relay

Answer 44

• receive and pass on (information or a message).

Question 45

• teem

Answer 45

• be full of or swarming with.

Question 46

• rout out

Answer 46

• cause to flee.

Question 47

• purloin (formal, humorous)

Answer 47

• steal (something).

Question 48

• forgo

Answer 48

• go without (something desirable).