To make alterations or adjustments to improve the quality, effectiveness, or suitability of something.

To officially give permission for a specific action, process, etc.

To be disloyal to a person, a group of people, or one's country by giving information about them to their enemy.

To break an agreement, law, etc.

To pay someone for the work they have done.

To carefully cover or hide something or someone.

To keep something from change or harm.

To think about something particular.

To provide a meeting, party, etc. with food and drink.

To prepare land for raising crops or growing plants.

To design or invent a new thing or method after much thinking.

To put something or someone in the place of another.

To tell someone what to do or not to do, in an authoritative way.

To make something known to someone or the public, particularly when it was a secret at first.

To change the shape or condition of something in a way that is no longer clear or natural.

To represent a quality or belief.

To give someone the power or authorization to do something particular.

To give someone the legal right to have or do something particular.

To take something out from something else, particularly when it is not easy to do.

To indirectly suggest something.

To tell someone to do something, particularly in an official manner.

To stay somewhere longer because one does not want to leave.

To appear as a large shape that is unclear, particularly in a manner that is threatening.

To cause someone to become extremely angry or shocked.

To do or say something to make someone stop worrying or less afraid.

To not oppose or prohibit something one does not like or agree with.

To not notice or see something.

To gradually decrease the effectiveness, confidence, or power of something or someone.

To make a sincere promise to do or not to do something particular.

To once again become noticeable, significant, or problematic.

To impress or surprise someone very much.

To present something old or already used in a slightly different way or with minor alterations, often without adding anything new.

To intentionally damage or undermine something, often for personal gain or as an act of protest or revenge.

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C1 Vocab Verbs 3

Question	Answer
to amend	To make alterations or adjustments to improve the quality, effectiveness, or suitability of something.
to authorize	To officially give permission for a specific action, process, etc.
to betray	To be disloyal to a person, a group of people, or one's country by giving information about them to their enemy.
to breach	To break an agreement, law, etc.
to compel	To make someone do something.
to compensate	To pay someone for the work they have done.
to conceal	To carefully cover or hide something or someone.
to conserve	To keep something from change or harm.
to contemplate	To think about something particular.
to cater	To provide a meeting, party, etc. with food and drink.
to cultivate	To prepare land for raising crops or growing plants.
to devise	To design or invent a new thing or method after much thinking.
to substitute	To put something or someone in the place of another.
to dictate	To tell someone what to do or not to do, in an authoritative way.
to disclose	To make something known to someone or the public, particularly when it was a secret at first.
to distort	To change the shape or condition of something in a way that is no longer clear or natural.
to embody	To represent a quality or belief.
to empower	To give someone the power or authorization to do something particular.
to entitle	To give someone the legal right to have or do something particular.
to extract	To take something out from something else, particularly when it is not easy to do.
to hint	To indirectly suggest something.
to instruct	To tell someone to do something, particularly in an official manner.
to linger	To stay somewhere longer because one does not want to leave.
to fade	To disappear slowly.
to loom	To appear as a large shape that is unclear, particularly in a manner that is threatening.
to outrage	To cause someone to become extremely angry or shocked.
to reassure	To do or say something to make someone stop worrying or less afraid.
to tolerate	To not oppose or prohibit something one does not like or agree with.
to overlook	To not notice or see something.
to undermine	To gradually decrease the effectiveness, confidence, or power of something or someone.
to vow	To make a sincere promise to do or not to do something particular.
to resurface	To once again become noticeable, significant, or problematic.
to astonish	To impress or surprise someone very much.
to rehash	To present something old or already used in a slightly different way or with minor alterations, often without adding anything new.
to sabotage	To intentionally damage or undermine something, often for personal gain or as an act of protest or revenge.

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