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  1. abdicate        to give up; renounce                                                                                
  2. aggrandize      to make great or greater; to enlarge; to intensify                                                  
  3. avow            to declare openly; to acknowledge                                                                   
  4. botch           to patch or mend clumsily; to bungle                                                                
  5. catapult        to hurl through the air; the throw                                                                  
  6. concoct         to devise or fabricate, as in an excuse                                                             
  7. crimp           to bend into shape                                                                                  
  8. deride          to laugh at contemptuously                                                                          
  9. distend         to stretch out; to swell from within                                                                
  10. engender        to cause to exist; produce                                                                          
  11. expiate         to atone for; to make emends for                                                                    
  12. forbear         to refrain from some action; to cease                                                               
  13. harry           to harrass in any way; to raid or pillage                                                           
  14. infer           to derive a conclusion from facts or premises                                                       
  15. jabber          to speak rapidly without making any sense                                                           
  16. mar             to do harm to; to damage                                                                            
  17. mulct           to defraud and cheat someone                                                                        
  18. pervade         to spread through every part of; permeate                                                           
  19. rhapsodize      to speak or write of something with extravagant   praise                                            
  20. undulate        to cause to move like a wave; to give a wavy      appearance to                                     
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