| 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 2. Make imperfect 3. Take away the legal force of or render ineffective | 1. Corrupt, debase, debauch, deprave 2. deflower, spoil, mar, Impair(Make worse or less effective: his vision was impaired) 3. void, invalidate |
| Stultified | 1. Cause to/made to appear foolish 2. Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless/make futile | 1. ridicule, poke fun, jest at 2. cripple |
| Alienate | 1. To make indifferent or hostile: He has alienated his entire family. 2. To turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose. 3. Law. to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands. | Estrange, wean, divorce, disunite, |
| Aggrieved | Infringe on the rights of/ subjected to ill treatment/ unjustly injured/oppressed | Peeved, pained, afflicted |
| Confound | Overwhelm: perplex; throw into confusion; | Bedevil, befuddle, fuddle, discombobulate (Cause to be confused emotionally), bewildered, Muddled, dizzy |
| Blighted | 1. to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops. 2. to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes. 3. to suffer blight(as a noun a state of decay, remember from withering plants, which blight!) | Wither, ruined, misfortune, unfortunate |
| Denude | Lay bare | Denudate, bare |
| Countervail | Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Neutralize, nullify, undo, counteract, offset, thwart |
| Disdain | 1. Reject with contempt 2. To consider unworthy; to think unsuitable and beneath one | Abhor, detest, belittle, contemn/scorn ( Look down on with disdain), despise |
