| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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| coalesce | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) fuse or cause to grow together | - |
| condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
| (verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| crescendo | (verb) grow louder | - |
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| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| intumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: bubble up |
| iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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| luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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| obsolesce | (verb) become obsolete, fall into disuse | - |
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| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| quiesce | (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
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| recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
| senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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| tumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy |
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