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  1. adjudicate      to determine judicially                                                                             
  2. assuage         to make less harsh or severe; to satisfy                                                            
  3. bicker          to dispute                                                                                          
  4. captivate       to fascinate; to charm                                                                              
  5. collate         to compare critically; to arrange sheets in a book                                                  
  6. corrode         to eat away or destroy gradually                                                                    
  7. demarcate       to mark the limits of; to separate                                                                  
  8. dishevel        to muss up; to disorder, especially clothing or   hair                                              
  9. emanate         to flow forth from a source; issue                                                                  
  10. exculpate       to free from blame or prove innocent                                                                
  11. fledge          to furnish with feathers; to grow feathers                                                          
  12. gyrate          to rotate or revolve around a fixed axis; to turn in a spiral motion                                
  13. impoverish      to cause to become poverty stricken; to take the  wealth of                                         
  14. intimate        to hint; to make known subtly; to imply                                                             
  15. lucubrate       to study laboriously; to write in a learned way                                                     
  16. mitigate        to make less harsh; to lessen the severity of; to mollify                                           
  17. ostracize       to exclude from a particular group; banish                                                          
  18. remonstrate     to say or plead in protest; to object                                                               
  19. traduce         to defame; to slander                                                                               
  20. yammer          to complain peevishly; to whimper; to howl                                                          
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