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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [pruh-LIF-uh-reyt]
1. To increase or spread at a rapid rate.
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [pri-sip-i-teyt]
1. To hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
2. To cast, plunge, or send, esp. violently or abruptly: He precipitated himself into the struggle.
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Saturday, May 08th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [per-PEND]
1. To ponder; deliberate.
2. To be attentive; reflect.
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Monday, March 29th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [trans-myoot]
1. To change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
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Monday, March 15th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [suhp-li-keyt]
1. To make a humble and earnest petition; to pray humbly.
2. To seek or ask for humbly and earnestly.
3. To make a humble petition to; to beseech.
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Saturday, March 06th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [pey-truh-nahyz]
1. To behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students.
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [uh-mal-guh-meyt]
1. To mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
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Friday, February 05th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [kuh-lood]
1. To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.
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Friday, February 05th, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [kuh-johl]
1. To persuade with flattery, repeated appeals, or soothing words; to coax.
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Monday, February 01st, 2010 | Author: markross

verb [je-stik-yuh-leyt]
1. To make gestures or motions, especially while speaking or instead of speaking.
2. To indicate or express by gestures.
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010 | Author: markross

verb
1. To walk about; to roam; to stroll; as, “he perambulated in the park.”
2. To walk through or over.
3. To travel over for the purpose of surveying or inspecting.
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010 | Author: markross

verb
1. To depart from or evade the truth; to speak with equivocation.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | Author: markross

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1. To claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right: to arrogate the right to make decisions.
2. To attribute or assign to another; ascribe.
3. To take or claim for oneself without right; appropriate: Presidents who have arrogated the power of Congress to declare war. See Synonyms at appropriate.
4. To ascribe on behalf of another in an unwarranted manner.
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1.To expose to contempt or shame by means of false statements or misrepresentation; to represent as blamable; to vilify.
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
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Friday, June 12th, 2009 | Author: markross

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1. To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. To refuse or deny oneself; to reject; to renounce.
2. To give up (rights, claims, etc.); to surrender; to relinquish.
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. To pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
2. To settle or determine (an issue or dispute) judicially.
3. To sit in judgment (usually fol. by upon).
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Friday, March 13th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. To make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
2. To set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.)
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1.To steal money or goods entrusted to one; embezzle.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | Author: markross

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1.To trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially: He delineated the state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
2.To portray in words; describe or outline with precision: In her speech she delineated the city plan with great care.
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. To ask, demand, or claim.
2. To claim or assume the existence or truth of, esp. as a basis for reasoning or arguing.
3. To assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
4. Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.

noun
5. Something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.
6. Mathematics, Logic. a proposition that requires no proof, being self-evident, or that is for a specific purpose assumed true, and that is used in the proof of other propositions; axiom.
7. A fundamental principle.
8. A necessary condition; prerequisite.
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Thursday, February 05th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1.To mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list: Let me enumerate the many flaws in your hypothesis.
2.To ascertain the number of; count.
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Friday, January 09th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1. to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
2. (of facts, circumstances, statements, etc.) to indicate or involve as a conclusion; lead to.
3. to guess; speculate; surmise.
4. to hint; imply; suggest.
-verb (used without object)
5. to draw a conclusion, as by reasoning.
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Thursday, January 08th, 2009 | Author: markross

verb
1.To frighten; overcome with fear
2.To discourage; lesson the courage of
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