AVID Vocab Quiz #25

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Bolster - v.

• having a powerful desire for success or achievement

• to support, strengthen, or fortify

• punctual or on time

• kind or generous

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Decree - v.

• to declare formally and with authority

• to support, strengthen, or fortify

• something different from the norm

• to feel sorrow for; to mourn

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Unjust - adj.

• unfair; not justified

• to support, strengthen, or fortify

• to withstand, sustain, or hold out against

• assume to be likely to happen

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Validate - v.

• unfair; not justified

• extremely bad

• to prove or declare valid

• to produce or release a substance

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Bittersweet - adj.

• sufficiently qualified

• kind, generous

• tinged with a feeling of sadness

• to be vulnerable to something

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Diminish - v.

• to clearly express in words

• to cause suffering to

• to make a secretive mention of something

• to become smaller in scope or degree

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Articulate - v.

• to clearly express in words

• to cause suffering to

• to make a secretive mention of something

• to become smaller in scope or degree

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Paramount - adj.

• the most essential or most basic part

• not enough in degree or amount

• enough; just meeting a requirement

• predominant, superior, most important

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Modify - v.

• to clearly express in words

• to change or alter

• to command against, to outlaw

• to become smaller in scope or degree

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Spur - v.

• to stimulate or incite

• to cause suffering to

• to make a secretive mention of something

• to become smaller in scope or degree