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Vocabulary 4 Using Synonyms
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Convoluted Having many overlapping folds or paths; complicated; complex; involved
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Endorse Give approval or support to; favor
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Enhance Heighten, intensify; increase, raise
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Evade Escape or avoid by cleverness; outwit, avoid
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Giddy Lighthearted; silly; foolish; deliriously happy
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Impede Interfere with; slow the progress of; block
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Innocuous Harmless; inoffensive
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Insuperable Impossible to overcome; invincible, unbeatable
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Interminable Having or seeming to have no end; infinite, perpetual
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Wary Watchful, cautious; doubtful, suspecting
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Vocabulary 5 The Prefix re-
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Recourse Turning to someone or something for help or protection; a turning to something
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Recuperate To recover health or strength; become healthy again
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Refute To prove false by argument; argue back
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Rejuvenated Made youthful or new again; made young again
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Remorse Deep pain caused by guilt for past wrongdoing; repeated gnawing in one’s gut
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Renowned Widely known; widely honored or famous
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Repel To keep away; fight back; force back
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Resentment Ill will felt as a result of a perceived insult or injury; rancor directed at a slight
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Resigned Deliberately giving up; accepting; to renounce or relinquish; giving up
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Retract To take back; draw back; pull back
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Vocabulary 6 The Suffix -ize
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Centralize Draw toward a center; bring under central control; to become central
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Economize Become careful in spending money; reduce spending or avoid waste
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Equalize Make equal
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Idealize Become ideal or perfect; to regard as excellent or perfect
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Immobilize Make unmovable or fix the position of; make unable to move
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Materialize Become substantial or real; take on concrete form; appear suddenly
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Maximize Cause to become the greatest; increase or make as great as possible
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Mesmerize Hypnotize; fascinate
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Rationalize Treat with reason; make something understandable; to come up with believable but untrue reasons for one’s behavior
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Scrutinize Treat with close examination; examine or observe carefully
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