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Meaning of expound, alienate, mimic, scrutinize, expurgate, countenance, quash, inhibit, jettison, discourse

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Meaning of expound (verb)
to set forth in detail; to explain; to comment; to describe in detail

Example
His vocation is to guard the faith, to present it, expound it.

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Meaning of alienate (verb)
to estrange; to isolate; to requisition; to confiscate

Example
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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Meaning of mimic (verb)
to make fun of or copy by imitating; to ape

Example
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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Meaning of scrutinize (verb)
to examine closely; to study; to investigate; to inspect

Example
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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Meaning of expurgate (verb)
to purify of offensive material; to censor

Example
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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Meaning of countenance (verb)
to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit

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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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Meaning of quash (verb)
to crush; to render void; to quell; to suppress; annul

Example
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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Meaning of inhibit (verb)
to check; to hinder; to hold back; to prevent

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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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Meaning of jettison (verb)
to throw goods overboard to lighten a vehicle; to discard; to get rid of

Example
To raise the balloon above the storm clouds, they had to jettison the ballast.

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Meaning of discourse (verb)
to communicate in an orderly fashion; to talk

Example
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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