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v. fester
(a) recover through digging
(b) restrain
(c) chew (food); manducate; jaw
(d) generate pus; rankle; produce irritation or resentment
 
v. importune
(a) make children; engender; sire; generate
(b) grant voting rights
(c) beg persistently and urgently
(d) free from slavery or servitude
 
v. beset
(a) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
(b) repay; refund; compensate for a loss
(c) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
(d) beat soundly
 
v. polarize
(a) overeat or eat immodestly
(b) take the place or move into the position of; supervene upon; supercede
(c) adapt; adjust
(d) separate into opposing groups; contrapose
 
v. splice
(a) laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack; gibe
(b) place a bet on; stake; game; punt
(c) join by interweaving strands
(d) make impossible, especially beforehand; close out

 

v. scruple
(a) have doubts about
(b) become powder or dust; pulverise; powderise
(c) stop the flow of a liquid; halt
(d) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
 
v. wallow
(a) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
(b) delight greatly in
(c) alternate the direction of motion of
(d) express strong disapproval of; objurgate; excoriate
 
adj. despondent
(a) incongruous; unsuitable
(b) without or almost without hope
(c) relating to rural matters
(d) having a good reputation
 
v. leaven
(a) influence; cause gradual change
(b) separate into opposing groups; contrapose
(c) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
(d) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
 
v. gasp
(a) give away information about somebody; tell on; betray; give away
(b) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave
(c) administer an oil or ointment to; oil; embrocate
(d) express a totally negative opinion of; trash

v. fester (d) generate pus; rankle; produce irritation or resentment
v. importune (c) beg persistently and urgently
v. beset (a) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
v. polarize (d) separate into opposing groups; contrapose
v. splice (c) join by interweaving strands
v. scruple (a) have doubts about
v. wallow (b) delight greatly in
adj. despondent (b) without or almost without hope
v. leaven (a) influence; cause gradual change
v. gasp (b) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave

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