Vocabuilder_Abandon

Mostafa (Bangladesh)
First Chapter of Vocabuilder -- A book by young Bangladeshi writer Farhad Hossain Masum
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  1. abandon
    forsake; leave behind
  2. abdicate
    give up power, duties, or obligations
  3. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  4. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
  5. forgo
    do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  6. forsake
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  7. renounce
    turn away from; give up
  8. retract
    formally reject or disavow
  9. deny
    declare untrue; contradict
  10. gainsay
    take exception to
  11. disavow
    refuse to acknowledge
  12. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  13. renege
    fail to fulfill a promise or obligation
  14. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  15. support
    the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
  16. corroborate
    give evidence for
  17. endorse
    approve of
  18. bolster
    support and strengthen
  19. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  20. abnegation
    the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief
  21. resumption
    beginning again
  22. adherent
    someone who believes and helps to spread a doctrine
  23. acknowledge
    declare to be true or admit the existence or reality of
  24. relent
    give in, as to influence or pressure
  25. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
  26. recant
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  27. valedictory
    a farewell oration
  28. waive
    do without or cease to hold or adhere to
Created on Tue Dec 03 12:23:55 EST 2013

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