| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| disquiet | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| equivocate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| harlequin | (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
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| inquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, enquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, investigate |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| quibble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
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| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickstep | (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
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| quiesce | (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
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| quiet | (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet down, quieten |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| quilt | (verb) create by stitching together | - |
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| (verb) stitch or sew together | - |
| quintuple | (verb) increase fivefold | - |
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| quip | (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: gag |
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| quirk | (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
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| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| quiz | (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: test |
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| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| requisition | (verb) make a formal request for official services | - |
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| (verb) demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | - |
| requite | (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: repay |
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| soliloquise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquize |
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| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
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| squinch | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
| (verb) crouch down | - |
| squint | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squinch |
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| (verb) partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light | - |
| (verb) be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus | - |
| squire | (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire | - |
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| squirm | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
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| squirt | (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: eject, force out, squeeze out |
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| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: spurt |
| squish | (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| tranquilize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquillize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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