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To bring a feeling into existence.
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(Engenders ,engendered,engendering)
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when the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school,it engendered anger in the student body |
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to ease someone’s anger: Calm someone down
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(pacified pacifying, pacifies, pacifist, pacifer)
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After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, I tried to pacify my friend by offering her a big warm hug.
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enthusiastic support
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ardently
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Being an ardent Bills fan, Mark painted his face half red and half blue to show his love for the team.
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to make something bad even worse
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(exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbated, exacerbating)
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The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany |
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good judgement; shrewd
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sagaciously
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Samuel Westing Jr. III had always been a sagacious business man known for his shrewd negotiating style.
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the disintegration or decomposition of something
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dissolutions
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The Alka-seltzer tablet’s dissolution was instant once it fell into the glass of water and virtually disappeared.
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the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contact
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contagions
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Once the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
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a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
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pestilences
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The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that was just as easily spread as the bubonic plague.
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to make continual twisting movements of the body.
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writhes, writhing, writhed
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The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range. |
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of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.
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pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted
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Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal moment in the life of his mother as well.
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