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v. hoax
(a) to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive
(b) to dirty; to stain; to sully; to soil
(c) to scrape or shave off; to obliterate; to tear down completely; to demolish
(d) to avoid; to outwit; to get around
 
v. extirpate
(a) to attract; to tempt; to charm
(b) to draw out; to extract from
(c) to refer indirectly to something; to hint
(d) to root out; to destroy totally; to eradicate
 
v. flaunt
(a) to smile in a silly or affected way; to smirk
(b) to foil; to thwart; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle
(c) to display or wave boastfully
(d) to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite
 
v. ensue
(a) to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite
(b) to follow; to result
(c) to speak angrily or bitterly; to protest forcefully; to rant
(d) to cancel by authority; to terminate; to abolish
 
v. concede
(a) to guess; to speculate; to surmise; to hypothesize; to infer
(b) to postpone; to put off to another time; to delay; to hold back
(c) to surrender; to admit; to give up; to yield
(d) to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; to slander

 

adj. sleazy
(a) carefully attentive; diligent; persistent; hard-working
(b) mutual; having the same relationship to each other; common; joint
(c) flimsy and cheap; shabby; cheap
(d) separate; individual
 
v. fathom
(a) to give up; to put off until later
(b) to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit
(c) to understand; to get to the bottom of; to measure the depth of
(d) to imprison; to detain; to jail
 
v. abandon
(a) to use for one's selfish purpose
(b) to leave behind; to give something up
(c) to exercise self control; to keep from; to refrain from
(d) to calm; to lessen in severity; to mollify; to relieve
 
v. consecrate
(a) to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive
(b) to variegate; to make different; to increase the product range of a company; to offer new products
(c) to declare sacred; to dedicate; to bless
(d) to restate in a brief; concise form; to sum up; conclude; to summarize
 
v. deprecate
(a) to speak or write at great length; to describe in full
(b) to express disapproval of; to protest against; to disparage; belittle
(c) to speak out against; to condemn; to accuse; to censure
(d) to forecast; to foretell; to diagnose

v. hoax (a) to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive
v. extirpate (d) to root out; to destroy totally; to eradicate
v. flaunt (c) to display or wave boastfully
v. ensue (b) to follow; to result
v. concede (c) to surrender; to admit; to give up; to yield
adj. sleazy (c) flimsy and cheap; shabby; cheap
v. fathom (c) to understand; to get to the bottom of; to measure the depth of
v. abandon (b) to leave behind; to give something up
v. consecrate (c) to declare sacred; to dedicate; to bless
v. deprecate (b) to express disapproval of; to protest against; to disparage; belittle

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