English Vocabulary Week 3

Front 1

attenuate

Back 1

to make slender, fine, or small, to reduce in force, value, amount, or degree, weaken, lessen

Front 2

rebuff

Back 2

reject bluntly, snub, repel or drive back

Front 3

inure

Back 3

to habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection, accustom

Front 4

abrogate

Back 4

to abolish, do away with, or annual, especially by authority

Front 5

burnish

Back 5

to make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing, polish, to rub with a tool that serves to smooth or polish

Front 6

deprecate

Back 6

to express disapproval of, deplore, to belittle, depreciate

Front 7

emanate

Back 7

to come or send forth, as from a source

Front 8

sequester

Back 8

to cause to withdraw into seculsion, to remove or set apart, segregate

Front 9

espouse

Back 9

to take in marriage, marry, to give one's loyalty or support to

Front 10

interpolate

Back 10

to insert or introduce between other elements or parts, to insert (material) into a text, to change or falsify (a text) by introducing new or incorrect material, to make insertions or additions

Front 11

deign

Back 11

to think it appropriate to one's dignity, condescend

Front 12

mesmerize

Back 12

to spellbind, enthrall, to hypnotize

Front 13

engender

Back 13

to bring into existence, give rise to, procreate, originate

Front 14

preempt

Back 14

to appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others, to take the place of, displace, have precedence or predominance over

Front 15

gainsay

Back 15

to declare false, deny, to oppose, esp by contradiction