v. gloat (a) to brag; to glory over; to feel triumphant; to exult (b) to increase; add to; to make larger; to enhance; to multiply (c) to encourage; to nurture; to support; to care for; to raise (d) to destroy completely; to erase
v. collaborate (a) to make a gleeful, chuckling sound; to laugh loudly (b) drive out; to eject; to evict (c) to wrap around something; to envelop; to enclose (d) to work together; to cooperate
v. sanction (a) to rescue from loss; to save from destruction (b) to utter or speak clearly and distinctly (c) to go away hastily or secretly; to hide; to avoid; to evade (d) to give encouragement; to authorize; to endorse; to approve; to ratify
v. exculpate (a) to protest; to object to; to prove (b) to talk or write excitedly; to scold; to lecture (c) to free from guilt; to declare innocent (d) to defame; to misrepresent maliciously; to vilify; to malign
v. gainsay (a) to laugh at with contempt; to mock; to sneer; to ridicule (b) to speak against; to contradict; to deny; to dispute (c) to mourn; to grieve; to regret (d) to establish; to educate morally or spiritually; to improve; to strengthen |
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v. amortize (a) to make a journey; to migrate (b) to force oneself or one's ideas upon another; to thrust forward; to eject; to invade; to interrupt (c) to put money into a fund at fixed intervals (d) to improve; to make better
v. constrain (a) to cause to get stuck in wet, soggy ground; to muddy (b) to condescend; to stoop; to lower oneself (c) to force; to compel; to restrain; to coerce; to oblige (d) to stimulate as if by electric shock; to startle; to excite; to stimulate
v. assuage (a) to relieve; to ease; to make less severe; to calm; to appease (b) to associate; to join; to be in agreement (c) to connect; to associate with; to accept as a member (d) to gain advantage by manipulating unfairly; to falsify; to pervert; to distort
v. fret (a) to form an opinion; to conclude; to surmise; to derive (b) to make valid; to confirm; to approve; to sanction; to authorize (c) to bring into being (d) to disturb; to irritate; to worry; to erode; to annoy
v. proliferate (a) to prosper; to reproduce quickly; to multiply rapidly (b) to mock; to jeer; to show disdain for (c) to wind; to ramble; to roam; walk about aimlessly; carry on in a leisurely way (d) to bring to an end; to hold back; to stop by force; to crush |