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v. niggle
(a) indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; presage
(b) argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble
(c) undergo necrosis; mortify; sphacelate
(d) offer formally; suggest
 
v. roil
(a) eliminate from the body; eliminate; pass
(b) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
(c) turn pale; whiten
(d) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
 
v. surmount
(a) strip the skin off
(b) shift; divert; alter the course of
(c) be or do something to a greater degree; outmatch; outgo; exceed; outdo; outperform
(d) grant voting rights
 
v. sap
(a) excavate the earth beneath
(b) deeply hurt the feelings of
(c) make believe with the intent to deceive; pretend; affect; dissemble
(d) slow down; decelerate
 
v. appreciate
(a) occur between other event or between certain points of time
(b) increase the value of; apprise
(c) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; plop; plunk; plump down; plunk down; plump
(d) insert something new

 

n. uniformity
(a) small individual study area in a library; cubicle; stall
(b) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
(c) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin
(d) tendency of a system to safeguard internal stability
 
n. vixen
(a) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
(b) a female fox
(c) severe criticism
(d) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
 
v. circumscribe
(a) censure severely or angrily; rebuke; lecture; reprimand; scold; berate; bawl out
(b) surround; restrict
(c) receive a specified treatment (abstract); find; obtain
(d) reverse; turn upside down
 
v. commutate
(a) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
(b) force or impel in an indicated direction; press
(c) alternate the direction of motion of
(d) turn away from by persuasion
 
v. concenter
(a) make believe with the intent to deceive; pretend; affect; dissemble
(b) get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile
(c) take exception to; except
(d) bring into focus or alignment; focalize; focalise; focus

v. niggle (b) argue over petty things; pettifog; bicker; squabble; brabble
v. roil (d) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
v. surmount (c) be or do something to a greater degree; outmatch; outgo; exceed; outdo; outperform
v. sap (a) excavate the earth beneath
v. appreciate (b) increase the value of; apprise
n. uniformity (b) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
n. vixen (b) a female fox
v. circumscribe (b) surround; restrict
v. commutate (a) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
v. concenter (d) bring into focus or alignment; focalize; focalise; focus

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