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to upset greatly
What is devastate?
100
great hardship or difficulty
What is rigor?
100
_____ rain kept interrupting the baseball game.
What is intermittent?
100
Having a very bad repuation; known unfavorably
What is infamous?
100
to relieve, to ease
What is alleviate?
200
to shorten
What is curtail?
200
to waste; spend or use foolishly
What is squander?
200
Airlines offer "frequent flyer miles" toward free trips as a(n) _____ to get people to fly more often.
What is incentive?
200
hatred, disgust or distaste
What is revulsion?
200
to come up with ideas or theories about a subject; to guess
What is speculate?
300
a motivation; encouragement
What is an incentive?
300
to join together or combine
What is incorporate?
300
By examining her last two months of spending Coretta discovered that she had _____(e)d money on too many expensive meals.
What is squander?
300
A person or group that gives help, especially financial
What is a benefactor?
300
A person who believes the worse of people's behavior or motives
What is a cynic?
400
necessary; needed
What is indispensable?
400
starting and stopping from time to time; irregular
What is intermittent?
400
Carl tried to ignore the double fudge chocolate cake on the menu, but he finally _____(e)d and ordered a slice.
What is succumb?
400
death, end or something/someone
What is demise?
400
secret; hidden
What is covert?
500
to yield or give in; stop resisting
What is succumb?
500
to go off subject, especially in writing or speaking
What is digress?
500
The man on the street corner offered to sell me a watch, but he quickly _____(e)d his sales pitch when he saw a police officer approaching.
What is curtail?
500
having attractive male qualities
What is virile?
500
Belonging to a person or thing by its very nature; fundamental or basic
What is intrinsic?
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