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Meaning of supplant, batten, oscillate, allocate, acquiesce, belittle, expunge, surfeit, plumb, nettle

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Meaning of supplant (verb)
to take the place of; to usurp

Example
Can you supplant my position if I cannot play?

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Meaning of batten (verb)
to gain

Example
The team could only batten by drafting the top player.

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Meaning of oscillate (verb)
to move back and forth; to have a wavering opinion; to vacillate

Example
The couple often oscillates between going out and staying home.

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Meaning of allocate (verb)
to set aside; to designate; to assign

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There have been front row seats allocated to the performer's family.
The farmer allocated three acres of his fields to corn.

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Meaning of acquiesce (verb)
to agree without protest; to accept without question

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The group acquiesced to the new regulations even though they were opposed to them.
After a hard-fought battle, the retailers finally acquiesced to the draft regulations.

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Meaning of belittle (verb)
to disparage; to depreciate; to scorn; to criticize

Example
The unsympathetic friend belittled her friend's problems and spoke of her own as the most important.

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Meaning of expunge (verb)
to blot out; to delete; to obliterate; to erase; to strike out

Example
Bleach may be used to expunge the stain.

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Meaning of surfeit (verb)
to indulge excessively; to gorge

Example
The teenagers were warned not to surfeit at the party.

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Meaning of plumb (verb)
to solve

Example
I was able to plumb the riddle in a few seconds.

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Meaning of nettle (verb)
to annoy; to irritate

Example
The younger brother nettled his older sister until she slapped him.
The boy will nettle the father into agreeing.

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