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v. shackle
(a) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; stretch
(b) soil with mud or muck; muck up
(c) restrain with fetters
(d) remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate
 
v. forestall
(a) clarify by giving an example of; instance
(b) fix firmly
(c) receive into the mind and retain
(d) act in advance of; counter
 
v. apprehend
(a) make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker
(b) wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; lurk; lie in wait
(c) stir up or tend
(d) anticipate with dread or anxiety
 
v. affix
(a) beg persistently and urgently
(b) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
(c) cast off; repudiate
(d) attach or become attached to a stem word
 
v. stem from
(a) occur as a result of
(b) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
(c) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross
(d) insert something new

 

v. aver
(a) unwrap; let on; bring out; reveal; break; give away
(b) declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; assert; avow; swan; swear
(c) get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile
(d) assign to a class or kind
 
adj. partial
(a) incomplete; biased; having a liking for something
(b) capable of being deduced
(c) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; luxuriant; sybaritic; voluptuary
(d) harsh or corrosive in tone; bitter; blistering; caustic; virulent
 
v. rhapsodize
(a) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; flush; redden
(b) pass through an enemy line
(c) say (something) with great enthusiasm
(d) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; play
 
v. jawbone
(a) tear down so as to make flat with the ground; rase; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down
(b) confine or restrain with handcuffs; bind
(c) draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil; quail
(d) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way; schmooze; schmoose
 
v. scram
(a) give moral or emotional strength to; solace
(b) leave immediately; fuck off; get
(c) draft into active service; take over
(d) spread negative information about; vituperate; rail

v. shackle (c) restrain with fetters
v. forestall (d) act in advance of; counter
v. apprehend (d) anticipate with dread or anxiety
v. affix (d) attach or become attached to a stem word
v. stem from (a) occur as a result of
v. aver (b) declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; assert; avow; swan; swear
adj. partial (a) incomplete; biased; having a liking for something
v. rhapsodize (c) say (something) with great enthusiasm
v. jawbone (d) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way; schmooze; schmoose
v. scram (b) leave immediately; fuck off; get

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