Norman Lewis - What goes on

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  1. abnegate
    deny or renounce
  2. alleviate
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  3. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  4. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  5. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  6. commiserate
    feel or express sympathy or compassion
  7. decapitate
    cut the head off of
  8. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  9. dissimulation
    the act of deceiving
  10. elevate
    raise from a lower to a higher position
  11. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  12. intimate
    marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
  13. levitate
    cause to rise in the air and float
  14. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  15. negate
    make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
  16. oscillate
    move or swing from side to side regularly
  17. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  18. self-abnegation
    renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
  19. simulate
    reproduce someone's behavior or looks
  20. synergism
    the working together of two or more things to produce an effect
  21. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  22. vegetate
    produce plant life
Created on Sun Jun 24 12:52:51 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Jun 24 13:25:36 EDT 2012)

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