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Vocabulary Three
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ameliorate | to make better; to improve; to make more tolerable |
| Ameliorate | dads; doctors; cars with self-park |
| Appopriate | make yourself the owner of something without permission; take possession; to steal |
| Appopriate | Child and mom's wallet; British and Native-Americans; older woman shoplifting |
| Facilitate | make easier; make less difficult |
| Facilitate | teachers; ropes and rock climbing; computers |
| Frustrate | to make ineffective; to block; to thwart |
| Frustrate | students and homework; technology; trying to scratch your own back |
| Humiliate | make someone feel ashamed; degrade; embarrass |
| Humiliate | falling cheerleaders; making fun of someone; dunce caps |
| Incapacitate | make unable or unfit; deprive of the ability to do something; disable |
| Incapacitate | straight jackets; illness; too much debt |
| Invigorate | make strong; give vigor to; fill with life or energy |
| Invigorate | sports drinks; Dr.Frankenstein used lightning, autumn air |
| Necessitate | make necessary; require; demand |
| Necessitate | Sahara Desert/water; tornado warning system; astronauts/ oxygen tanks |
| Obliterate | to make non-existent; to erase, to destroy completely |
| Obliterate | atomic bomb; fire; demolition crew |
| Perpetutate | lasting forever; cause to continue or be remembered, immortalize |
| Perpetuate | gossip; myths of haunted houses; fears about epedimics |