Meaning: Cease to support or look after (someone)
Example: It was an attempt to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city deprivation.
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Meaning: To become smaller or less intense
Example: Thanks God the storm abated
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Meaning: To shorten by omitting parts or details.
Example: Physician asked the patient to abbreviate his liquor intake if he wants to live long
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Meaning: To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father to his child;
Example: The government was accused of abdicating its responsibility.
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Meaning: Take (someone) away illegally by force or deception
Example: Police were tipped off that Kiley was planning to abduct someone
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Meaning: Regard with disgust and hatred.
Example: Professional tax preparers abhor a flat tax because it´d dry up their business.
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Meaning: To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
Example: Many doctors assume that women who undergo testing would choose to abort
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Meaning: To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
Example: She absconded with the remaining thousand dollars.
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Meaning 1: Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.
Example: buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat | steroids are absorbed into the bloodstream.
Meaning 2: Take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience): she absorbed the information in silence.
Meaning 3: Take control of (a smaller or less powerful entity) and make it a part of a larger one.
Meaning 4: Use or take up (time or resources): arms spending absorbs roughly two percent of the national income.
Meaning 5: Take up and reduce the effect or intensity of (sound or an impact): deep-pile carpets absorbed all sound of the outside world.
Meaning 6: (often be absorbed in) take up the attention of (someone).
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Meaning: Formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion
Example: Forty-one voted with the Opposition, and some sixty more abstained.
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Meaning: Treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly
Example: Riders who abuse their horses should be prosecuted.
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Meaning: Assent or agree to a demand, request, or treaty throne.
Example: The authorities did not accede to the strikers’ demands
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Meaning: To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
Example: Fred began eating his cereal with a serving spoon, it seamed he wanted to accelerate the process and get on with the day’s activities.
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Meaning: To receive, especially with a consent, with favor, or with approval.
Example: Snuggling close, she lifted her face to accept his kiss.
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Meaning: To accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
Example: Neither the government nor the army could accommodate itself to the new situation
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Meaning: To go along with.
Example: Among the fifteen knights selected by Arthur to accompany him to Chastel Orguellous he only ranks ninth
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Meaning: To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
Example: No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck.
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Meaning: To pile up, collect or amass.
Example: When a number of such characters accumulate, we further honor them by assigning a new generic name.
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Meaning: To find fault with, blame or censure.
Example: It had provided the opportunity for him to accuse her of being unfaithful.
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Meaning: feel intense, desire, sadness or compassion.
Example: She sat still and silent because of her heart´s aching
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Meaning: To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
Example: Sometimes they achieve rare beauty by accident.
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Meaning: To admit, recognize and declare one’s belief in.
Example: He failed to acknowledge my departure as I returned to our room.
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Meaning: Make someone aware of or familiar with
Example: I am not acquainted with any young lady of that name
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Meaning: To accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
Example: But surely serious thought cannot acquiesce in dual control.
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Meaning: Buy or obtain (an object or asset) for oneself.
Example: You must acquire the rudiments of Greek
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Meaning: Conduct oneself or perform in a specified way
Example: All the young women in the contest acquitted themselves well.
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Meaning: perform a fictional role.
Example: Act like nothing is wrong.
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Meaning: To put into action.
Example: It didn’t activate at his touch.
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Meaning: Make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose.
Example: The policies can be adapted to suit individual needs and requirements
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Meaning: Join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount:
Example: add the flour to the eggs, stirring continuously.
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Meaning: Someone who is addicted to a particular substance, thing or activity.
Example: Sam was addicted to gambling
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Meaning: Speak to a person or an assembly, typically in a formal way.
Example: She addressed an audience of the most important Shawnee chiefs.
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Meaning: To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does.
Example: The lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
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Meaning: Alter or move something slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result.
Example: He smoothed his hair and adjusted his tie.
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Meaning: Manage and be responsible for the running of a business, organization, etc.
Example: Each school was administered separately.
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Meaning: look at with pleasure.
Example: She couldn’t help but notice his admiring glance
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Meaning: To allow to enter whether into a place, mind, or consideration.
Example; At least I admit I’m jealous – and I have every reason to be.
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Meaning: To reprove gently or kindly, but seriously, in other words, to exhort.
Example: They were admonished and then asked to leave the room
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Meaning: To start to use or follow an idea, method, or course of action.
Example: This approach has been adopted by many big banks.
Meaning: To assume an attitude or position
Example: He adopted a patronizing tone
Meaning: To take another’s a child and bring it up as one’s own
Example: There are many people eager to adopt a baby
Meaning: To approve or accept (a report or suggestion
Example: The committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal.
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Meaning: To feel great love and admiration for someone.
Example: The author was attracted by the hearts of these three women who we adore as one and the same.
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Meaning: To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
Example: He will soon shake all nations and their choicest gifts will be brought to adorn His house.
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Meaning: To move forward, typically in a purposeful way
Example: My boss advanced me half my salary.
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Meaning: To notify (someone) of something; to call someone’s attention to something.
Example: A friend of hers who is a florist asks if she can advertise on the site
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Meaning: To tell someone that they should do something
Example: the lawyer advised the court that his client wished to give evidence.
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Meaning: A person who pleads on someone else’s behalf
Example: Care managers can become advocates for their clients.
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Meaning: Touch the feelings of someone so as to move emotionally.
Example: the atrocities he witnessed have affected him most deeply.
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Meaning: Officially attach or connect (a subsidiary group or a person) to an organization
Example: The college is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin.
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Meaning: To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
Example: He affirmed the country’s commitment to peace
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Meaning: To stick, attach, or fasten something to something else
Example: He licked the stamp and affixed it to the envelope.
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Meaning: To have enough money to pay for.
Example: I don´t know if I can afford the house with all the expenses I have nowadays.
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Meaning: The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed
Example: He died from a heart attack at the age of 51
Meaning: A particular stage in someone’s life
Example: Children of primary school age
Meaning: the latter part of life or existence; old age
Example: With age, this gland can become sluggish.
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Meaning: To make worse, or more severe
Example: Military action would only aggravate the situation.
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Meaning: To writhe with agony
Example: I didn’t agonize over the problem.
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Meaning: To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action.
Example: I completely agree with your recent editorial
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Meaning: To help, typically of a practical nature.
Example: He saw the pilot slumped in his cockpit and went to his aid
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Meaning: To have the intention of achieving.
Example: We aim to give you the best possible service
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Meaning: Express (an opinion or grievance) publicly.
Example: A meeting in which long-standing grievances were aired.
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Meaning: To expose (a room) to the open air in order to ventilate it
Example: The window sashes were lifted regularly to air the room.
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Meaning: To be in a state of alertness.
Example: Let´s alert the people before taking a wrong decision
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Meaning: Cause (someone) to become unsympathetic or hostile
Example: The association does not wish to alienate its members
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Meaning: To place or arrange (things) in a straight line
Example: Gently brush the surface to align the fibers.
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Meaning: To claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong
Example: He alleged that He had been assaulted
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Meaning: To give something, especially a share of something available, for a particular purpose.
Example: A good Friend of mine was allowed a new apartment to live in
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Meaning: To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
Example: It is important to let kids make mistakes to learn from them
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Meaning: To mention someone or something in an indirect way.
Example: He alluded his friend, but he didn’t´t even say what his name was
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Meaning: To arrange a list of words in alphabetical order.
Example: Is there a standard or an easier way to alphabetize this data base?
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Meaning: To change the form or structure of.
Example: This doesn’t´t alter the fact that what you think of her is not right
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Meaning: If one thing alternates with another, they happen after another
Example: The children alternated between being boring and being tired.
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Meaning: To gather a large amount of something, especially by collecting it over a period of time.
Example: By the time Michael Jackson was 51, he´d already amassed a fortune.
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Meaning: To walk in a slow and relaxed way.
Example: The happy couple ambled along the street, arm in arm.
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Meaning: A sudden and surprising attack on a person or group by one or more people .
Example: Seven commandos were wounded in an ambush
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Meaning: To change the words of something written, esp. a law or a legal document
Example: The terms of our contract were amended in later years.
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Meaning: To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
Example: I thought it would amuse you, though.
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Meaning: I intend to analyze the sexism in such texts : he tried to analyze exactly what was going on.
psychoanalyze (someone).
Example: Could we analyze it before anything else?
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Meaning: To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
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Meaning: To reduce to nothing, to benothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
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Meaning: To add annotation
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Meaning: To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Example: We´ve better advertise before our competitors
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Meaning: To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
Example: What reaaly annoys me is when someone criticices others without having a reason to do so
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Meaning: To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
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Meaning: To reply back
Example: Last night I called Mr. Garcia but he didn´t answer the phone call
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Meaning: To work against; oppose; especially to incite reaction.
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Meaning: To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
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Meaning: To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
Example: He should apologize for being rude to all os us
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Meaning: To lodge an appeal against a decision/sentence
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Meaning: To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
Example: Morally the wielder of power appears to cause the event; physically it is those who submit to the power.
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Meaning: To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
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Meaning: To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
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Meaning: To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
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Meaning: To be grateful or thankful for.
Example: I really appreciate what you did for my son Mike
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Meaning: to be easy/difficult to approach
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Meaning: o take to or for oneself; take possession of.
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Meaning: To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
Example: We shan´t approve the migratory form
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Meaning: to speak angrily to someone, telling them that you disagree with them.
Example: Don´t argue about money, everything will get better
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Meaning: To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
Example: why don´t we arrange to meet tomorrow morning instead
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Meaning:To obtain a level of success or fame.
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Meaning: To clear, effective
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Meaning: To move upward, to fly, to soar.
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Meaning: To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
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Meaning: to request an answer
Example: The Ark of the Law, in the Jewish synagogue, is a chest or cupboard containing the scrolls of the Torah (Pentateuch), and is placed against or in the wall in the direction of Jerusalem.
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Meaning: To request (information, or an answer to a question).
Example: you can ask me anything you want
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Meaning: To physically or verbally attack someone.
Example: he assailed a group of editors for their alleged excesses
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Meaning: to make an assault on sth.
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Meaning: to assay someone’s efforts.
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Meaning: to give one’s assent to sth.
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Meaning: To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
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Meaning: To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate
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Meaning: To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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Meaning: To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
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Meaning: To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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Meaning: To make sure and secure.
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Meaning:To fasten, join, or connect something.
Example: Please find attached file for your kind reference
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Meaning: To try hurt or deaft using violence.
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Meaning: To accomplish; to achieve.
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Meaning: to attempt to beat the record.
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Meaning::To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
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Meaning: To pull toward without touching.
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Meaning: To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
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Meaning: To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
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Meaning: To turn aside or away.
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Meaning: To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
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Meaning: To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly
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Meaning: To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
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