Vocabulary List 12

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 anything

Answer 2

Annihilate

Question 3

To give a detailed description

Answer 3

Delineate

Question 4

To mark the physical borders of something

Answer 4

Delineate

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Emaciate

Question 6

To vary or change irregularly; to waver

Answer 6

Fluctuate

Question 7

To start or begin; to take the first step

Answer 7

Initiate

Question 8

To introduce fundamentals of a new subject

Answer 8

Initiate

Question 9

To make timid; to make fearful by threats or violence

Answer 9

Intimidate

Question 10

To say or mention again or repeatedly

Answer 10

Iterate

Question 11

To make or become less severe or painful; to moderate

Answer 11

Mitigate

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Palpitate

Question 13

To conciliate power; to cause to be favorably inclined

Answer 13

Propitiate

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Substantiate