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v. absolve
(a) strike with an axe
(b) let off the hook; free
(c) protect or fight for
(d) postpone; put off until a later time; delay
 
v. temper
(a) restrain
(b) anticipate with dread or anxiety
(c) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; undress
(d) repay; refund; compensate for a loss
 
v. warrant
(a) move sideways or in an unsteady way; shift; tilt
(b) commemorate; record
(c) steal goods; loot; strip; rifle; ransack; pillage; foray
(d) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
 
v. galvanize
(a) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
(b) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock
(c) agree or express agreement; acquiesce
(d) deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam
 
v. swerve
(a) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; substantiate; support; affirm
(b) turn sharply; curve; trend; veer; slue; slew; cut
(c) investigate; research; study
(d) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; elude

 

v. doss
(a) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; tempt
(b) take the place or move into the position of; supersede; supervene upon; supercede
(c) make sweeter in taste; edulcorate; dulcorate
(d) sleep in a convenient place; crash
 
v. warble
(a) sing by changing register; descant
(b) indicate by signs; portend; omen; presage; betoken; forecast
(c) supply with an excess of
(d) make or emit a high sound; clink; chink
 
v. equivocate
(a) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter
(b) make a pretence of; sham
(c) express great joy; rejoice; triumph; jubilate
(d) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way; schmooze; schmoose
 
v. kibosh
(a) collect discarded or refused material
(b) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)
(c) surround; restrict
(d) stop from happening or developing; block
 
v. rook
(a) run away; absquatulate; decamp; run off; go off; make off
(b) deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam
(c) make easy; assist forward; promote
(d) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute

v. absolve (b) let off the hook; free
v. temper (a) restrain
v. warrant (d) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
v. galvanize (b) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock
v. swerve (b) turn sharply; curve; trend; veer; slue; slew; cut
v. doss (d) sleep in a convenient place; crash
v. warble (a) sing by changing register; descant
v. equivocate (a) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter
v. kibosh (d) stop from happening or developing; block
v. rook (b) deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam

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