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v. languish
(a) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; devastate; ravage; scourge
(b) satisfy (thirst); assuage
(c) tease; drive
(d) become feeble
 
v. macerate
(a) take off or remove
(b) impregnate; aerate
(c) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade
(d) cause to grow thin or weak
 
v. embed
(a) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.
(b) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
(c) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
(d) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; renegue on; go back on
 
v. refashion
(a) become rotten
(b) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter
(c) be lazy or idle; bum around; loaf; frig around; lounge about
(d) make new; redo; make over
 
v. slough
(a) be about; lounge; mess about; mill around
(b) mar or spoil the appearance of; blemish
(c) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult
(d) scar; burn; brand

 

v. wean
(a) stick out; project; bulge
(b) cast off; repudiate
(c) give in, as to influence or pressure; soften
(d) detach the affections of
 
v. cavort
(a) declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; assert; avow; swan; swear
(b) belittle; vilipend
(c) play boisterously; lark; rollick; skylark; disport; sport
(d) make without a potter's wheel; coil
 
adj. wordy
(a) using or containing too many words; verbose; windy
(b) existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
(c) providing protective supervision
(d) taking effect on a past date
 
v. tucker
(a) wear out completely; beat
(b) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
(c) disarrange or rumple; tangle
(d) make sense of; see
 
v. inundate
(a) fill or cover completely, usually with water; submerge
(b) commemorate; record
(c) spend extravagantly; waste; ware
(d) catch sight of; espy; spy

v. languish (d) become feeble
v. macerate (d) cause to grow thin or weak
v. embed (b) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
v. refashion (d) make new; redo; make over
v. slough (c) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult
v. wean (d) detach the affections of
v. cavort (c) play boisterously; lark; rollick; skylark; disport; sport
adj. wordy (a) using or containing too many words; verbose; windy
v. tucker (a) wear out completely; beat
v. inundate (a) fill or cover completely, usually with water; submerge

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