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To bring a feeling into existence
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When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers, it engendered anger in the student body.
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Engenders, Engendered, Engendering |
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To ease someone's anger;calm someone down
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After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, I tried to pacify my friend by giving her a big warm hug.
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Pacifies, Pacifying, Pacified, Pacifist.
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Enthusiastic support
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Being an ardent Bills fan, Mark painted his face half red and half blue to show his love for the team.
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Ardently
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To something bad even worse
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The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany her.
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Exacerbating, Exacerbated Exacerbates |
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Good judgement; Shrewd
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Samuel Wresting Jr. III had always been a sagacious business man known for his shrewd negotiating style.
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Sagaciously |
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The disintegration or decomposition of something.
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The Alka-seltzer dissolution was instant one it fell into the glass of water and virtually disappeared.
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Dissolutions
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the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contact
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Once the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
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Contagions |
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A fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
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The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that was just as easily spread as the bubonic plague
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Pestilences |
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to make continual twisting movements of the body.
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The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range.
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writhes, writhed, writhing |
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Of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.
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Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal moment in the life of his mother as well
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Pivot, Pivoting, Pivots, Pivoted |
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