| 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 scheme, purpose, etc.). 3. To depreciate; belittle. | Depreciate, Vilipend, disesteem, frown on, pooh-pooh, deplore, condemn, criticize, belittle, pick at |
| Carp | To find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors. | Pick on, Pettifog (1. to bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters., 2. to practice chicanery of any sort.), Quibble (to equivocate), fuss at, nag, grouse, cavil, Nitpick (to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.) |
| Scout | Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Reconnoiter |
| Extol | to praise highly; laud; eulogize: to extol the beauty of Naples. | Praise, glorify, eulogize, magnify |
| Aggrandize | 1. To widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend. 2. To make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor. | lard, embellish, blow up, dramatize, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, magnify, amplify, snowball, heighten, escalate |
| Cashier | 1. Discard or do away with 2. Discharge with dishonor, as in the army | Dismiss, discharge, terminate, cast off |
| Extricate | Release from entanglement of difficulty | Untangle, disentangle, disentangle |
| Filch | Make off with belongings of others | pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, nobble, lift, steal |
| Exacerbate ig-zas-er-beyt | 1. Make worse 2. Exasperate or irritate | Add insult to injury, vex, aggravate, make worse |
| Consummate | 1. To bring to a state of perfection; fulfill. 2. To complete (an arrangement, agreement, or the like) by a pledge or the signing of a contract: The company consummated its deal to buy a smaller firm. 3. To complete (the union of a marriage) by the first marital sexual intercourse. | Inimitable, carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill |
| Badger | To harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us. | tease, pester, bug, beleaguer torment, rag |
| Ferret | 1. Hound or harry relentlessly 2. Hunt with ferrets (a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.) 3. Search and discover through persistent investigation | hound, hunt, trace |
