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v. comport
(a) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; fix; doctor; furbish up; restore; touch on
(b) confine or restrain with handcuffs; bind
(c) bear; deport; conduct; carry
(d) cancel officially; countermand; reverse; rescind
 
v. replenish
(a) fill something that had previously been emptied; fill again
(b) reduce to beggary; pauperise
(c) avoid dealing with
(d) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
 
v. relapse
(a) sign in the presence of witnesses
(b) protect or fight for
(c) go back to bad behavior; recidivate; regress; retrogress; fall back
(d) make children; engender; sire; generate
 
v. scotch
(a) make a small cut or score into
(b) regret strongly; bewail; bemoan
(c) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
(d) reverse; turn upside down
 
v. betroth
(a) sleep in a convenient place; crash
(b) remove soil or rock; fret
(c) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
(d) give to in marriage; affiance; plight

 

v. abate
(a) exhaust by attacking repeatedly
(b) become less in amount or intensity; slack off; slack; die away
(c) cut off a limb
(d) be silly or tease one another; josh; banter
 
n. apogee
(a) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs; doubter
(b) a contrived or fantastic idea
(c) apoapsis in Earth orbit
(d) a small or moderate or token amount
 
v. dulcify
(a) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned; cue
(b) make sweeter in taste; edulcorate; dulcorate
(c) fill to satisfaction; replete; fill
(d) feel or express sympathy or compassion; sympathise
 
v. garble
(a) equip with sails or masts; set up
(b) cause to be nervous or upset
(c) make false by mutilation or addition; warp
(d) injure badly by beating
 
v. foil
(a) wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; lurk; lie in wait
(b) frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding
(c) free from slavery or servitude
(d) offer formally; suggest

v. comport (c) bear; deport; conduct; carry
v. replenish (a) fill something that had previously been emptied; fill again
v. relapse (c) go back to bad behavior; recidivate; regress; retrogress; fall back
v. scotch (a) make a small cut or score into
v. betroth (d) give to in marriage; affiance; plight
v. abate (b) become less in amount or intensity; slack off; slack; die away
n. apogee (c) apoapsis in Earth orbit
v. dulcify (b) make sweeter in taste; edulcorate; dulcorate
v. garble (c) make false by mutilation or addition; warp
v. foil (b) frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding

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