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  Word Descriptions accede, procrastinate, accelerate, hail, depreciate, extirpate, diversify, blemish, abrogate, engender


   
Description of accede (verb)
to comply with; to consent to; to agree with; to concur

Samples of accede
With defeat imminent, the rebel army acceded to hash out a peace treaty.



   
Description of procrastinate (verb)
to postpone; to put off to another time; to delay; to hold back

Samples of procrastinate
Don't procrastinate - make a start on each project as soon as possible.
The longer we can procrastinate, the better for all concerned, wrote an FO official in 1946.



   
Description of accelerate (verb)
to quicken; to speed up; to cause to move faster

Samples of accelerate
Nature is a precarious system, likely to accelerate to catastrophe if tampered with, is one extreme view.



   
Description of hail (verb)
to call from a distance; to greet; to welcome

Samples of hail
But which of us, locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out, has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything, run into the street, hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere?



   
Description of depreciate (verb)
to belittle; to speak slightingly of; to reduce the value or cost; to disparage

Samples 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.



   
Description of extirpate (verb)
to root out; to destroy totally; to eradicate

Samples of extirpate
To enforce conformity to the new orthodoxy, the Spaniards instituted ecclesiastical visitas , or inspections intended to extirpate the idolatry that persisted long after the conquest.



   
Description of diversify (verb)
to variegate; to make different; to increase the product range of a company; to offer new products

Samples of diversify
Seen commercially, the advantages of operating through a subsidiary include the ability to diversify activities whilst not exposing the other parts of the business to financial risk.



   
Description of blemish (verb)
to scar; to spoil; to stain; to flaw; to impair; to deface

Samples of blemish
But two German occupations last century didn't blemish Brussels, with its splendid medieval ramparts and its incomparable Art Nouveau treasures.



   
Description of abrogate (verb)
to cancel by authority; to terminate; to abolish

Samples of abrogate
The judge would not abrogate the law.



   
Description of engender (verb)
to bring about; to bring forth; to cause; to produce; to generate

Samples of engender
The group attempted to engender changes to the law.



  Determinations of the words accede, procrastinate, accelerate, hail, depreciate, extirpate, diversify, blemish, abrogate, engender

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