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  1. abdicate        to give up; renounce                                                                                The king @d his throne in order to marry the woman.         
  2. aggrandize      to make great or greater; to enlarge; to intensify                                                  The employee @d his contribution beyond reality.            
  3. avow            to declare openly; to acknowledge                                                                   The defendant had openly @ed his desire to kill.            
  4. botch           to patch or mend clumsily; to bungle                                                                The investigators @ed the investigation with their bumbling.
  5. catapult        to hurl through the air; to throw                                                                   The Greek @ed huge stones at the Persian ships.             
  6. concoct         to devise or fabricate, as in an excuse                                                             The children @ed a fantastic story to explain the spill.    
  7. crimp           to bend into shape                                                                                  The workman @ed the wire into the right shape.              
  8. deride          to laugh at contemptuously                                                                          The winner contemptuously @d the loser.                     
  9. distend         to stretch out; to swell from within                                                                Starvation @ed the poor man's stomach.                      
  10. engender        to cause to exist; produce                                                                          The disparities @ed resentment among the people.            
  11. expiate         to atone for; to make amends for                                                                    The man tried to @ for his crimes with good deeds.          
  12. forbear         to refrain from some action; to cease                                                               The mother tried to @ with the bad attitude of the child.   
  13. harry           to harass in any way; to raid or pillage                                                            The soldiers @ed the enemy as it retreated.                 
  14. infer           to derive a conclusion from facts or premises                                                       The should not @ a conclusion from incomplete premises.     
  15. jabber          to speak rapidly without making any sense                                                           The stunned survivor @ed to the fireman.                    
  16. mar             to do harm to; to damage                                                                            The bad piano playing @ed the performance.                  
  17. mulct           to defraud and cheat someone                                                                        We should not try to gain income by @ing others.            
  18. pervade         to spread through every part of; permeate                                                           The bad smell @d every corner of the house.                 
  19. rhapsodize      to speak or write of something with extravagant   praise                                            The eulogizer @d eloquently over the dearly departed.       
  20. undulate        to cause to move like a wave; to give a wavy      appearance to                                     The boat @d back and forth over the wavy sea.               
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