Word Bank ( Second Quarter)

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1.abridge

verb (used with object), abridged, abridging.1. to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a

reference book.2. to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail:to abridge a visit; to abridge one's freedom.3. to deprive; cut off.

2.amplify

verb (used with object)1. to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend.2. to expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by

expanding.3. Electricity. to increase the amplitude of; cause amplification in.4. Archaic. to exaggerate.

verb (used without object)

5. to discourse at length; expatiate or expand one's remarks, speech, etc.(usually fol. by on ): The preacher amplified on the theme of brotherlylove.

3.browbeat

verb (used with object), -beat, -beaten, -beating.to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him intoagreeing.

4.concoct

verb (used with object)1. to prepare or make by combining ingredients, esp. in cookery: toconcoct a meal from leftovers.

2. to devise; make up; contrive: to concoct an excuse.

5.discombobulate

verb (used with object), -lated, -lating.


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to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completelydiscombobulated by the hecklers.

6.downplayverb (used with object)

to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on itsimportance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the

president's role in the negotiations.

7.embellish

verb (used with object)

1. to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.2. to enhance (a statement or narrative) with fictitious additions.

8.embezzle

verb (used with object), -zled, -zling.to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or propertyentrusted to one's care.

9.eschew

verb (used with object)to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid: to eschew evil.

10. exonerate

Definition ofEXONERATE

1: to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship


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2: to clear from accusation or blame

exoneration\-z-n-r-shn\ noun

exonerative\-z-n-r-tiv\ adjective

Examples ofEXONERATE

11. expedite

-diting, adjectiveverb (used with object)1. to speed up the progress of; hasten: to expedite shipments.2. to accomplish promptly, as a piece of business; dispatch: to expediteone's duties.3. to issue or dispatch, as an official document or letter.

adjective4. Obsolete . ready for action; alert.

12. foreclose

verb \()for-klz\

Definition ofFORECLOSE

transitive verb

1: to shut out

2: to hold exclusively

3: to deal with or close in advance

4: to subject to foreclosure proceedings

intransitive verb

: to foreclose a mortgage


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Examples ofFORECLOSE

y They've been unable to make their mortgage payments, and thebank has threatened to foreclose.

y The bank has threatened to foreclose their mortgage.

13. fraternize

verb (used without object)1. to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.2. to associate cordially or intimately with natives of a conquered country,enemy troops, etc.

verb (used with object)3. Archaic. to bring into fraternal association or sympathy.

14. imbibe

verb \im-bb\

Definition ofIMBIBE

transitive verb

1 archaic:SOAK, STEEP

2a: to receive into the mind and retain b: to

assimilate or take into solution

3 a:DRINKb: to take in or up

intransitive verb

1:DRINK2

2a: to take in liquid b: to absorb or assimilate moisture, gas, light, or heat

imbibernoun


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Examples ofIMBIBE

y She imbibedvast quantities of coffee.

y She neverimbibes but isn't offended when others do.

15. juxtapose

verb (used with object), -posed, -posing.to place close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.

16. lambaste vt

Definition ofLAMBASTE

1: to assault violently

2: to attack verbally :

Examples ofLAMBASTE

1. The coach lambastedthe team for its poor play.2. They wrote several letters lambastingthe new law.

17. mitigate

verb (used with object)1. to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain;moderate.2. to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment.3. to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder ormore gentle; mollify; appease.



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4. to become milder; lessen in severity.

18. nitpick

verb \nit-pik\

Definition ofNITPICK

intransitive verb

: to engage in nit-picking

transitive verb

: to criticize by nit-picking

nitpicknoun

nitpickernoun

nitpicky\-pi-k\ adjective

Examples ofNITPICK

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19. procrastinate


1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate untilan opportunity is lost.verb (used with object)2. to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.

20. stifle

noun \st-fl\


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Definition ofSTIFLE

: the joint next above the hock in the hind leg of a quadruped (as a horse or

dog) corresponding to the human knee

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