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List #6
American Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| garner | to gather or collect; accumulate; earn |
| mar | to spoil or damage; to injure or blemish |
| heed | to listen to, pay attention to, consider; to mind |
| meander | to wander casually with no set plans; to ramble |
| nullify | to render unimportant or without worth; to negate or invalidate; to annul legally |
| obliterate | to erase completely, wiping out all traces |
| mitigate | to ease, making less severe; to alleviate or relieve |
| oscure | (v)to make dim or unclear; to conceal, hide (adj) obscure, vague, mysterious, remote, dark |
| peruse | (v) to study or examine carefully (n) perusal |
| raze | to tear down completely, to demolish |
| placate | to calm , soothe or appease, especially by offering to "be nice" or to do someone a favor |
| rebuff | to criticize harshly or to reject someone, often by snubbing them (ignoring them) |
| mit/mutat | to change |
| pon/pos | to place or put |