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English: List 1
English vocab: List 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acquiesce | To give in and agree peaceably; to assent, comply. |
| Chastise | To scold severly or punish; castigate, censure. |
| Augment | To increase; to make something greater or bigger. |
| Condone | To overlook or pardon an offense; to excuse. |
| Amass | To accumulate, collect; to gather, come together. |
| Disseminate | To disperse or spread everywhere (knowledge or ideas) as if sowing seeds. |
| Coalesce | To mix or come together from separate things. |
| Concur | To agree, assent; to approve; to concide. |
| Digress | To wander off course in speaking or writing. |
| Laud | To praise, command, acclaim, extol. |
| Disperse | To spread all over; to desseminate; also to fan out or scatter in a random way. |
| Efface | To erase or obliterate; to wear away (as by time). |
| Emit | To voice; to give off, as fumes or anger. |
| Mission | A definite job or task; the mission establishment itself (usually religious). |
| Cursory | Sketchy, not thorough; hasty or superficial. |
| Precursor | A forerunner that hints at the future; harbinger. |