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| Explanation of blight (verb) to ruin; to decay; to destroy Sample of blight Look, I don't want to blight the whole thing before we start, but suppose we fail?
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| Explanation of harangue (verb) to talk or write excitedly; to scold; to lecture Sample of harangue Please stop haranguing me so I can breathe freely again.
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| Explanation of obtrude (verb) to force oneself or one's ideas upon another; to thrust forward; to eject; to invade; to interrupt Sample of obtrude The inquisitive coworker obtrudes into the conversation often.
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| Explanation of besmirch (verb) to dirty; to stain; to sully; to soil Sample of besmirch The soot from the chimney will besmirch clean curtains.
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| Explanation of immunize (verb) to make insusceptible to a disease Sample of immunize There is still no vaccine to immunize people against the HIV virus. The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to, simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment.
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| Explanation of low (verb) to moo; to utter the sound made by cattle Sample of low It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds, and left the world to darkness and to us each night. Using samplers, slowed-down tapes, echo-box, fuzz, wah wah, bullhorns, saws, car doors (from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds), and tapes of cattle lowing, they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum, new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound.
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| Explanation of waive (verb) to give up; to put off until later Sample of waive I will waive my rights to have a lawyer present because I don't think I need one. As hard as he tried, he could only waive his responsibility for so long.
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| Explanation of recapitulate (verb) to restate in a brief; concise form; to sum up; conclude; to summarize Sample of recapitulate He first discoursed at length on the virtues and uses of the different articles, and then recapitulated the whole lecture; or else he recapitulated, equally as fully, at the end of the description of each article.
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| Explanation of consummate (verb) to complete; to bring to perfection; to fulfill; to perfect Sample of consummate They fall in love, but before they can consummate it Elena has a vision of the Virgin Mary, which throws the local authorities into a tailspin. Sometimes such advisers may act for companies to handle the securities issues needed to consummate another transaction, such as an acquisition.
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| Explanation of temporize (verb) to delay or refuse to commit oneself in order to gain time; to avoid an answer Sample of temporize The real point about the events of 1558 is that it was a missed opportunity for the Catholics, missed because Mary of Guise still temporized, still would not put the weight of the state behind that of the church.
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