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  Word Descriptions edify, augment, forbear, paraphrase, mimic, conjecture, alienate, sally, abet, coalesce


   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



   
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.



  Determinations of the words edify, augment, forbear, paraphrase, mimic, conjecture, alienate, sally, abet, coalesce

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