
Description of edify (verb) to establish; to educate morally or spiritually; to improve; to strengthen
Samples of edify According to their schedule, the construction company will edify the foundation of the building in one week. The teachers worked to edify their students through lessons and discussion.
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Description of augment (verb) to increase; add to; to make larger; to enhance; to multiply
Samples of augment They needed more soup so they augmented the recipe. They were able to augment their savings over a period of time.
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Description of forbear (verb) to exercise self control; to keep from; to refrain from
Samples of forbear He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear, Julius Caesar.
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Description of paraphrase (verb) to restate the meaning of a passage in other words
Samples of paraphrase He kills himself, as innumerable commentators have paraphrased and elaborated, in order to kill God.
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Description of mimic (verb) to make fun of or copy by imitating; to ape
Samples 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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Description of conjecture (verb) to guess; to speculate; to surmise; to hypothesize; to infer
Samples of conjecture I conjecture that co-adapted meme-complexes evolve in the same kind of way as co-adapted gene-complexes. They conjecture that Poseidon was a central figure between two fountains and that Hercules and Atlas held the wire grid before the bright disk which simulated the motion of the heavens.
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Description of alienate (verb) to estrange; to isolate; to requisition; to confiscate
Samples 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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Description of sally (verb) to rush forth suddenly; to burst forth
Samples of sally Learning of this affront to the Christmas Spirit from the Washington Post, the First Lady rallied her forces, put some bills into her handbag, summoned the Secret Service and sallied forth to Mazza Galleries, one of the few places in town which still allows the Sally Army to function.
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Description of abet (verb) to encourage; to support
Samples of abet The law of complicity enables the conviction of people who aid and abet others to commit offenses, and spreads a fairly wide net in doing so.
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Description of coalesce (verb) to grow together; to merge; to unite
Samples of coalesce The bride and groom coalesced their funds to increase their collateral. At the end of the conference the five groups coalesced in one room.
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