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Verbs of Energy
Word Meaning Synonyms Accentuate 1. To give emphasis or prominence to. 2. To mark or pronounce with an accent. Play up, highlight, point out, underline, spotlight, stress, accent, pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say Epitomize Embody the essential...
Verbs about Your Fellowmen
Word Meaning Synonyms Exculpate To clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate. Absolve, pardon, vindicate, acquit, exonerate, Assoil (to atone for) Deprecate 1. To express earnest disapproval of. 2. To urge reasons against; protest against (a...
A Miscellany of Verbs
Word Meaning Synonyms Arraigned 1. to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment. 2. to accuse or charge in general; criticize adversely; censure Blame, denounce, incriminate, inculpate (to charge with fault; blame; accuse) Avowed acknowledged; declared:...
Verbs of Deep Emotion
Word Meaning Synonyms Fulminate 1. To explode with a loud noise; detonate. 2. To issue denunciations or the like (usually fol. by against): The minister fulminated against legalized vice. Upbraid, touch off, execrate, Set off, blow up, rail, denounce Enthrall 1. To...
Verbs of Exceptional Power
Word Meaning Synonyms Nonplussed to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely; disconcerted, taken aback; brought to a mental standstill Perplexed, bewildered, baffled, at a loss, stumped, flummoxed, stupefied Eulogized to praise highly; spoken in praise of the life...
Verbs of Everyday Use
Word Meaning Synonyms Aver 1. To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner. Declare, affirm, assert, avow, swear, Pander To act as a pander; cater basely: to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons. (As a noun, pander means ‘a...
Verbs That Suggest Violence
Word Meaning Synonyms Lacerate 1. To tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands. 2. To distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly: His bitter criticism lacerated my heart. Tear, snap, rupture, bust Wound, spite, offend,...
Verbs of Action
Word Meaning Synonyms Devastate Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly Ruin, Wreck, Depredate (to plunder or lay waste to; prey upon; pillage; ravage.), Ravage (to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.), Lay waste to, Scourge Enjoin...
One-Syllable Verbs of Power
Word Meaning Synonyms Flaunt Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously Show-off, parade, display, wave around, Grandstand ( to conduct oneself or perform showily or ostentatiously in an attempt to impress onlookers: The senator doesn't hesitate to...
Verbs of general value
Word Meaning Synonyms Arrogating 1. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to 2. Make undue claims to having/ascribing proudly and presumptuously Usurping, assuming, taking over, Vitiate 1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality...
These are your Verbs of Denial
Word Meaning Synonyms Abjure Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure/under oath Renege(to go back on/Fail to fulfill a promise or obligation), retract, forswear, recant, renounce Ostracize os-truh-sahyz Expel from a community or...
Verbs that Deal with Human Traits
Word Meaning Synonyms Languish 1. Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief Pine away, waste, wilt 2. Have a desire for something or someone who is not present Yen, yearn, pine, ache 3. Become feeble Fade Commiserate kuh-miz-uh-reyt To feel or express sympathy or...
