Vocabulary 12A

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Accelerate

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Annihilate

Question 3

a) to give a detailed description

b) to mark the physical borders of something

Answer 3

Delineate

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Emaciate

Question 5

to vary or change irregularly; to waver

Answer 5

Fluctuate

Question 6

a) to start or begin; to take the first step

b) to introduce fundamentals of a new subject

Answer 6

Initiate

Question 7

to make timid; to make fearful by threats or violence

Answer 7

Intimidate

Question 8

to say or mention again or repeatedly

Answer 8

Iterate

Question 9

to make or become less severe or painful; to moderate

Answer 9

Mitigate

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Palpitate

Question 11

to conciliate a power; to cause to be favorably inclined

Answer 11

Propitiate

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Substantiate