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| Explanation of reverberate (verb) to echo; to resonate; to resound Sample of reverberate The drug age was in its infancy; there would be many dead and injured in its wake and as we all now know in the wiser Nineties, the knock-on effects would reverberate in much more sinister and sordid terms not just for the rest of the decade but the rest of the century.
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| Explanation of err (verb) to make a mistake; to do something wrong; to misjudge Sample of err To err, it's only human. Voltaire's work is, arguably, offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available.
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| Explanation of ejaculate (verb) to exclaim or utter suddenly; to blurt out Sample of ejaculate These are some of the uncanny facts that have caused us to consider Messrs Hill and Jackson and ejaculate, 'Whooo, spooky!'.
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| Explanation of accelerate (verb) to quicken; to speed up; to cause to move faster Sample of accelerate Nature is a precarious system, likely to accelerate to catastrophe if tampered with, is one extreme view.
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| Explanation of apprise (verb) to inform; to brief; to notify Sample of apprise For I have no doubt that, had this been the case, the great American artist, given the purity of his motivation, would have had the courtesy to apprise the Italian artist of his project.
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| Explanation of petrify (verb) to paralyze with horror, fear or surprise Sample of petrify When Amy Moyle, the wife of Josias Clarke, died in 1631 her husband decided to petrify his last memory of her by having cut a supine effigy, which showed his wife in her shroud.
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| Explanation of entreat (verb) to beg earnestly; to implore; to plead Sample of entreat For a just example of vengeance, I entreat that the thieving tribe of Glencoe may be rooted out in earnest.
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| Explanation of retrieve (verb) to make good; to recover; to restore; to fetch; to bring back; to regain Sample of retrieve Television and newspapers no longer praise model entrepreneurs but heroic laborers such as Zhang Fuxin, praised for throwing himself into a pit of polluted mud to retrieve a piece of equipment.
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| Explanation of taunt (verb) to reproach with contempt; to provoke; to sneer Sample of taunt Bavarian fans of Bayern Munich, for example, taunt their counterparts from Dortmund and Shalke in German's industrial north with chants about unemployment and poverty.
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| Explanation of depreciate (verb) to belittle; to speak slightingly of; to reduce the value or cost; to disparage Sample of depreciate Now fitted with the superior 2.9-liter engine, the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year - 48 per cent falls are the norm. This gives judicial support to the view that financial statements have a limited useful life (of less than 15 months) and depreciate in usefulness over a period of time.
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