Vocabulary 12

Question 1

Accelerate

Answer 1

to increase the rate of movement, growth, or progress of something

Question 2

annihilate

Answer 2

to reduce to nothingness; to destroy the organized existence of anything

Question 3

delineate

Answer 3

to give a detailed description

to mark the physical borders or something

Question 4

emaciate

Answer 4

to become or cause to become abnormally thin, as by starvation or sickness

Question 5

fluctuate

Answer 5

to vary or change irregularly; to waver

Question 6

initiate

Answer 6

to start or begin; to take the first step

to introduce fundamentals of a new subject

Question 7

intimidate

Answer 7

to make timid; to make fearful by threats or violence

Question 8

iterate

Answer 8

to say or mention again or repeatedly

Question 9

mitigate

Answer 9

to make or become less severe or painful; to moderate

Question 10

palpitate

Answer 10

to quiver, flutter, or tremble; to beat quickly, said especially of the heart

Question 11

propitiate

Answer 11

to conciliate a power; to cause to be favorably inclined

Question 12

substantiate

Answer 12

to prove existence or validity with evidence or proof; to verify