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Rail
v to complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons.
Prize
v to extract information, to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him.
Pluck
n courage, bravery, spunk, fortitude: Churchill’s speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war.
Plastic
adj moldable, pliable, not rigid, adapting easily
Pine
v to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn, to languish, to become weak and loose vitality
Pied
adj variegated, multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.
Pedestrian
adj dull, ordinary, commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
Occult
adj supernatural or magic, not understandable, secret, hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
Obtain
adj to be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain.
Nice
adj exacting, careful, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases.
Mince
v pronounce, speak, or walk daintily, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don’t mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe
Milk
v to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of, make the most of: I milked the position for all it was worth.
Meet
adj to satisfy something, fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.
Lumber
v to move heavily and clumsily, walk heavily, shamble, hobble: lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers.
List
v to tilt or lean to one side: The ship’s broken mast listed helplessly in the wind.
Intimate
v to iply, suggest, hint or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?
Guy
n/v a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide to support it; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide.
Grouse
(growss) v to complain or grumble n complaint, grumble, moan, objection, protest
Ford
v to wade (walk in water) across the shallow part of a river or stream
Flip
adj sarcastic, impertinent, unserious, dismissive as in flippant: a flip remark
Cardinal(ka’ard’n@l)
adj major, basic, fundamental, prime, chief as in cardinal sin
Chauvinist (sho’v@nist)
n a blindly devoted, unreasoning, overenthusiastic, and aggressive patriot, bigot
volatile
adj readily changing of fickle a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive (volatility), unstable, unpredictable
Flag
v to sag or droop, wilt, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits
Fell
adj inhumanly cruel: Fell beasts surrounded the explorers; fierce, lethal.
Fell
v to cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees; to cut down, to chop down, to knock down, to knock out
Exact
v to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price.
Essay
v to test or try; attempt at something, experiment: The newly born fawn (young deer) essayed a few wobbly steps.
Die
n a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop: the metal tool on a stamping or pressing machine that gives the finished object its shape and design, mold
Damp
v to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Consequential
adj pompus, self-important: having an exaggerated opinion of personal qualities or abilities (primary definitions are: logically following; important), significant, substantial, major, momentous
Color
v to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, to influence, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth
Brook
v to tolerate, endure, countenance: I will brook no interference in this matter; n stream, rivulet, river, creek
Broach
v bring up, mention, announce, begin to talk about a difficult subject; to open a container for the first time; to pierce cask, to bore hole
Bent
n leaning, inclination, proclivity, determined, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent
August
adj majestic, impressive, grand, noble, venerable
Arrest
arresting v/adj to suspend; to engage; capture, holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
Appropriate
v to take for one’s own use, especially, without permission, confiscate
Alloy
v to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
vituperate
v to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate
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