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| Explanation of expound (verb) to set forth in detail; to explain; to comment; to describe in detail Sample of expound His vocation is to guard the faith, to present it, expound it.
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| Explanation of alienate (verb) to estrange; to isolate; to requisition; to confiscate Sample of alienate Widespread surveillance threatens to alienate the public. Following his ejection from Kidderminster, the Bishop, the deans and many of the curates had preached long and bitter sermons against Richard Baxter to alienate the people from him.
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| Explanation of mimic (verb) to make fun of or copy by imitating; to ape Sample of mimic Fell wants to simulate loss-of-coolant accident and then use about two-thirds the usual emergency cooling water to mimic what could occur at Sizewell.
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| Explanation of scrutinize (verb) to examine closely; to study; to investigate; to inspect Sample of scrutinize Even when there are specialist historians, producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards, people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors. After allowing his son to borrow the family car, the father scrutinized every section for dents.
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| Explanation of expurgate (verb) to purify of offensive material; to censor Sample of expurgate Let us expurgate from the immaturity of our environmental thought, that essence of crepuscular darkness which our sciolism leads us to extrapolate into quotidian existence.
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| Explanation of countenance (verb) to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit Sample of countenance She criticized Mr Major's election soap-box as 'naff'; during the recent campaign, but the Prime Minister was prepared to overlook that and countenance her rehabilitation.
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| Explanation of quash (verb) to crush; to render void; to quell; to suppress; annul Sample of quash Lord Justice Watkins and Mr Justice Garland, sitting in the High Court, dismissed Mr Green's application to quash the ruling, made in May by Mr Ronald Bartle, a Bow Street stipendiary magistrate.
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| Explanation of inhibit (verb) to check; to hinder; to hold back; to prevent Sample of inhibit We need a system of assessment that will encourage, not inhibit, the development of the imagination, and the new emphasis on practical skills as of equal importance with scholarship and learning.
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| Explanation of jettison (verb) to throw goods overboard to lighten a vehicle; to discard; to get rid of Sample of jettison To raise the balloon above the storm clouds, they had to jettison the ballast.
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| Explanation of discourse (verb) to communicate in an orderly fashion; to talk Sample of discourse The scientists discoursed on a conference call for just five minutes but were able to solve three major problems. The interviewee discoursed so fluently, she was hired on the spot.
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