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Which word describes the act of lessening the intensity of a storm?

  • Abate (correct)
  • Assail
  • Assert
  • Aspire

What action involves providing arguments or evidence to support a claim's truth?

  • Corroborate with (correct)
  • Concur with
  • Censure
  • Debunk

Which word describes making something clear and easily understandable?

  • Elude
  • Elicit an answer
  • Elucidate (correct)
  • Embroil(ed)

Among the options, which choice means to express strong disapproval or criticism?

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Which verb describes the act of freeing someone from blame or guilt?

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If someone is trying to avoid pursuers, what verb describes their action?

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What does it mean to 'undermine' something?

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What action is described as rejecting or disowning something?

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Which of the following describes the action of 'making something less severe, serious, or painful'?

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Which word describes the action of thoroughly examining something in detail?

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Flashcards

Abate

To become less in amount or intensity; to decrease.

Abhor/Abhorrence

To hate or detest intensely; feeling of repulsion.

Advocate

To support or argue for a cause or policy.

Allocate

To distribute resources or duties for a particular purpose.

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Allude/Allusion

To suggest or call attention to indirectly; an indirect reference.

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Aspire

To have an ambitious plan or dream.

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Assail

To attack physically or verbally.

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Assuage

To make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

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Belie

Fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict.

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Belittle

To regard or represent as less impressive or important than appearances indicate.

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Study Notes

  • Abate means to lessen or subside, like a storm gradually weakening.
  • Abhor/abhorrence is to feel disgust or hatred for something.
  • Advocate is to support or argue for a cause or policy.
  • Allocate means to distribute resources.
  • Allude/allusion is to indirectly hint at something.
  • Aspire means to have a strong desire or ambition.
  • Assail is to attack or criticize forcefully.
  • Assert means to state something confidently and firmly.
  • Assuage is to alleviate or soothe.
  • Belie means to contradict or misrepresent. Example: "His appearance belies what he has been through."
  • Belittle means to make someone or something seem unimportant.
  • Bequeath means to pass something on or leave something to someone in a will.
  • Berate means to scold or criticize severely.
  • Bolster means to strengthen or support. Example: "bolster his confidence."
  • Burgeon means to grow or flourish rapidly. Example: "burgeoning demand."
  • Buttress means to support or strengthen; it can also refer to a supporting structure.
  • Castigate means to criticize or punish severely.
  • Censure is to express strong disapproval or criticism in a formal way.
  • Concur with means to agree or be in accordance with someone.
  • Corroborate with means to provide evidence or support for a statement or theory.
  • Debunk means to expose the falseness or exaggerated claims of something.
  • Decimate means to kill or destroy a large proportion of something.
  • Delineate means to describe or portray something clearly and in detail.
  • Demystify means to clarify or explain something that is difficult to understand.
  • Denounce means to publicly condemn or criticize.
  • Depose means to remove from office or power.
  • Deride means to ridicule or make fun of.
  • Detach means to separate or disconnect.
  • Diffuse means to spread out or scatter widely.
  • Digress(ion) from/diversion/diverge means to stray or deviate from the main point or direction.
  • Discern/discerning means to perceive or recognize something.
  • Discount means to disregard or underestimate the value or importance of something.
  • Disparate means fundamentally different or dissimilar.
  • Disparage means to belittle or speak negatively about someone or something.
  • Dispassionate means impartial; without strong feeling.
  • Dispel means to drive away or eliminate.
  • Divulge means to reveal or make known.
  • Elicit an answer means to draw out or evoke a response.
  • Elucidate means to make clear or explain.
  • Elude means to evade or escape from.
  • Elusive means difficult to grasp or define.
  • Embroil(ed) means to involve deeply in a conflict or difficult situation.
  • Encompass means to surround or include.
  • Endorse means to support or approve of.
  • Enumerate means to list or count.
  • Epitome/epitomize means to be a perfect example of.
  • Evoke means to bring to mind or elicit.
  • Exacerbate means to make worse.
  • Exaggerate means to overstate or magnify.
  • Excavate means to dig or hollow out.
  • Exemplify means to be a typical example of something.
  • Exonerate means to free from blame or guilt.
  • Extol means to praise enthusiastically.
  • Fathom means to understand.
  • Forbode means to predict or foretell something bad.
  • Foreshadow means to give a warning or indication of a future event.
  • Germinate means to begin to grow or develop.
  • Hamper means to hinder or impede.
  • Highlight means to emphasize or draw attention to.
  • Incriminate means to accuse or present evidence of involvement in a crime.
  • Indict(ment) means to formally accuse of a crime.
  • Induce means to cause or bring about.
  • Inhibit(ing) means to restrain or prevent.
  • Innocuous means harmless.
  • Instigate means to provoke or initiate.
  • Intimidate means to frighten or threaten.
  • Intricate (adj) means complex or detailed.
  • Inundate means to overwhelm or flood.
  • Invoke means to appeal to or call upon.
  • Iritate means to annoy or provoke.
  • Jeopardize means to put at risk.
  • Mitigate/mitigator means to alleviate or reduce the severity of something.
  • Noxious (adj) means harmful or poisonous.
  • Obscure means to conceal or make unclear.
  • Pacify/pacifist means to soothe or make peaceful.
  • Patronize means to condescend to or support.
  • Persecute means to oppress or harass.
  • Prosecute means to take legal action against.
  • Prohibit means to forbid or prevent.
  • Pique means to arouse interest or irritation.
  • Placate means to appease or pacify.
  • Preclude means to prevent or exclude.
  • Procure means to obtain or acquire.
  • Proliferate/proliferation means to increase rapidly.
  • Pronounce/pronouncement means to announce formally.
  • Ratify means to approve or confirm.
  • Raze means to completely destroy.
  • Reap means to acquire or gain as a result of one's actions.
  • Recant means to withdraw or disavow a statement.
  • Renounce means to reject or give up.
  • Recess means a period of temporary economic decline.
  • Rectify/rectitude (noun) means to correct or make right; moral virtue.
  • Relinquish means to give something up.
  • Reprimand means to scold or rebuke.
  • Reproach means to express disapproval or criticism.
  • Repudiate means to reject or disown.
  • Rescind means to revoke or cancel.
  • Repeal means to revoke or annul a law.
  • Resent means to feel bitterness or indignation.
  • Revere (reverent/irreverent) means to venerate or respect deeply.
  • Rouse, rousing means to excite or stir up.
  • Santify/sanctity means to make holy or sacred.
  • Satiate means to satisfy fully.
  • Saturate means to fill completely.
  • Scrutinize/scrutiny means to examine closely and thoroughly.
  • Shroud means to conceal or cover.
  • Slight (verb) means to insult or treat disrespectfully.
  • Speculate means to guess or conjecture; to form a theory.
  • Squander means to waste or spend extravagantly.
  • Substantiate (corroborate) means to provide evidence to support the truth of.
  • Supplant means to replace or supersede.
  • Surmise means to guess or infer.
  • Suppress means to put down by force.
  • Underline means to emphasize.
  • Undermine means to weaken or damage.
  • Underscore means to emphasize.
  • Usurp means to seize power or authority.
  • Vanquish means to defeat thoroughly.
  • Vex/vexing means to annoy or irritate.
  • Vindicate/vindication means to clear from blame or suspicion.
  • Vie for/vying means to compete for.
  • Wane means to decrease or diminish.

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