Vocabulary List 5 Flashcards

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Adulterate

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Abeka: To corrupt or make inferior by the admixture of foreign or baser ingredients
Easy definition: to contaminate, degrade

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Construe

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To explain to interpret the meaning or intention of words or actions
(Construed)

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Convulse

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To shake uncontrollably

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<—-Disperse —>

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To cause to separates in different directions; to go different ways.

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Disseminate (di-sem/e-nat)

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To scatter abroad (as in sowing seeds); to spread about

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Edify

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To. Build up in faith and holiness through instruction. To instruct, teach, or guide.

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Emulate

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Or imitate; to try to surpass or equal

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Implore

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To beseech; to plead with; to beg for.

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Recant

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To withdraw formally or publicly something that one has openly professe or taught. Renounce, to deny

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reverberate

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To resound; to continue, like a series of echoes

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Saturate

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To penetrate, impregnate, or slack thoroughly. And completely; to fill or load to capacity.

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Transpose

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To reverse places with something; to change the usual order of

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