Sunday, December 16, 2007

List 6

1. GARNER (v) to gather or collect; accumulate; earn.

2. MAR (v) to spoil or damage; to injure or blemish

3. HEED (v) to listen to, pay attention to, consider; to mind.

4. MEANDER (v) to wander casually with no set plan; to ramble.

5. NULLIFY (v) to render unimportant or without worth; to negate or invalidate; to annul legally

6. OBLITERATE (v) to erase completely, wiping out all traces.

7. MITIGATE (v) to ease, making less severe; to alleviate or relieve.

8. OBSCURE (v) to make dim or unclear; to conceal, hide.

9. PERUSE (v) to study or examine carefully. -- PERUSAL (noun form).

10. RAZE (v) to tear down completely, to demolish.

11. PLACATE (v) to calm, soothe, or appease, especially by offerning to "be nice" or to do someone a favor.

12. REBUFF (v) to criticize harshly or to reject someone, often by snubbing them (ignoring them).


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