Mr P ELA 9 #15

to make large or increase

• debauchery

• deteriorate

• augment

• gradgrind

to give up a position, a right, or power

• abdicate

• lag

• dour

• kindle

uncertain, hesitant, experimental

• tentative

• wary

• receding

• castigate

easily deceived

• stereotype

• advocate

• gullible

• autumnal

steadily increasing in volume, force, or pitch

• brine

• cauterize

• crescendo

• sage

bright, brilliant, glowing

• sere

• objective

• ruminate

• luminous

to overlook or disregard something

• feasible

• enigma

• feckless

• condone

persuasive and moving, especially in a speech

• orotund

• extradite

• eloquent

• decoy

someone who pleads the cause of another

• advocate

• allocate

• arrant

• liege

to weaken secretly to lessen the power of

• stimulate

• penchant

• undermine

• vituperate