SET 11

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Free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty; Conduct oneself or perform in a specified way.
Acquit
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Show approval or praise by clapping; Show strong approval of (a person or action); praise.
Applaud
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Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands; Assuage or satisfy (a demand or a feeling;
Appease
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Represent in outline; Foreshadow (a future event).
Adumbrate
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Reprimand firmly; Advise or urge (someone) earnestly.
Admonish
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Increase the power, status, or wealth of;Enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts.
Aggrandize
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Adulterate
Render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance
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Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense;
satisfy (an appetite or desire).

Assuage
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Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; yield.
Capitulate
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Delineate

Describe or portray (something) precisely; Indicate the exact position of (a border or boundary).
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Dislike intensely.
Detest
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Dupe


Deceive; trick;
A victim of deception.

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Openly resist or refuse to obey; Be of such a kind or nature that (a specified attitude or action) is almost impossible.
Defy
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Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing).
Expiate
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Deliberately avoid using; abstain from
Eschew
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Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
Engender
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Pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
Feign
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Predict (the future or a future event).
Foretell
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wrongly ascribe a work or remark to (a particular author, artist, or speaker).
Misattribute
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Make legally invalid or ineffective; Make of no use or value; cancel out
Nullify
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Prove more powerful or superior; Persuade (someone) to do something.
Prevail
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Win or regain the favour of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them.
Propitiate
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Increase rapidly in number; multiply
Proliferate

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Forbid, especially by law.
Proscribe
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Be entitled to a particular benefit or privilege by fulfilling a necessary condition.
Qualify
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Relegate


Assign an inferior rank or position to; Transfer (a sports team) to a lower division of a league.
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Remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation); Set upright again.
Redress
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Think deeply about something; Of a mammal that regurgitates) chew the cud.
Ruminate
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Subdue (someone or something) by force.
Repress
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Draw or be drawn back or back in.; Withdraw (a statement or accusation) as untrue or unjustified.
Retract
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