| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| agate | (noun) an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles | - |
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| aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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| (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
| (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
| arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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| conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
| (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| derogate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, minimize |
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| desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| gate | (noun) a movable barrier in a fence or wall | - |
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| (noun) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs | Synonyms: logic gate |
| (noun) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark | - |
| (noun) total admission receipts at a sports event | - |
| (verb) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment | - |
| (verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate | - |
| (verb) supply with a gate | - |
| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| lichgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lychgate |
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| liftgate | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback, hatchback door |
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| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| lychgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lichgate |
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| margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
| obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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| (verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
| propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually | - |
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| (verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering | - |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread |
| (verb) transmit | - |
| (verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread | - |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) travel through the air | - |
| (verb) transmit from one generation to the next | - |
| relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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| subjugate | (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subject |
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| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue |
| subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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| surrogate | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: foster |
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| (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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| (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
| tollgate | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollbar |
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| variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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| (verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |