v. coalesce (a) to win the goodwill of; to appease (b) to commend; to praise (c) to protest; to object to; to prove (d) to grow together; to merge; to unite
v. remonstrate (a) to call forth; to provoke; to arouse; to summon; to bring out (b) to outline; to describe; to sketch; to draw (c) to be abusive in speech; to disparage; to deride (d) to protest; to object to; to prove
v. emulate (a) to loathe; to hate; to detest (b) to try to equal or excel; to take after; to imitate; to copy (c) to act indecisively; to tremble; to vacillate (d) to prosper; to reproduce quickly; to multiply rapidly
v. deliberate (a) to give up; to put off until later (b) to separate; to segregate; to seclude; to set apart (c) to attract; to tempt; to charm (d) to consider; to ponder; to discuss
v. cavil (a) to bicker; to criticize; to complain (b) to promise or pledge in marriage (c) to attempt to disprove or invalidate; to challenge; to appeal; to fight for (d) to plead on behalf of another; to mediate; to arbitrate; to intervene |
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v. decry (a) to hasten the action of; to speed up; to accelerate; to facilitate; to dispatch (b) to denounce or condemn openly (c) to shorten; to reduce in length compress; to diminish; to make brief (d) to examine and delete objectionable material
v. abandon (a) to consider; to ponder; to discuss (b) to leave behind; to give something up (c) act of investing into an enterprise; act of boarding a boat (d) to imitate in a non-serious manner; to mock
v. obviate (a) to loiter; to waste time; to trifle; to flirt (b) to make unnecessary; to prevent; to remove an obstacle in advance (c) to provoke; to irritate; to offend (d) to give vent; to inflict; to perform
v. disavow (a) to damage; to spoil; to deface (b) to deny; to refuse to acknowledge; to disclaim; to reject; to repudiate (c) to thin out; to weaken in intensity; to decrease (d) to foretell something; to portend
v. accrue (a) to establish; to educate morally or spiritually; to improve; to strengthen (b) to accumulate; to grow; to compile; to collect; to amass (c) to force; to compel; to restrain; to coerce; to oblige (d) to convert from one belief or religion to another |