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 |
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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 |