Words List

To shrink, lose freshness, and deteriorate, as in plants or other living things; for example, when flowers or fruits dry up and lose their vitality.

To navigate around or avoid; to go past or bypass, especially to avoid facing or addressing a specific issue or obstacle.

To live or stay permanently; to reside.

To be successful or fortunate, especially in financial matters; to thrive and flourish.

To call upon someone or something to perform a specific action.

To prosper; to be fortunate or successful.

To make something easier to endure, lessen, or mitigate, such as alleviating sorrow or alleviating pain.

To fly upward, as a bird.

To prove that something is false or incorrect, such as an opinion or accusation.

To gradually gather or collect, often increasing over time; to heap up, as in accumulating wealth.

To persistently annoy someone through faultfinding, complaints, or demands.

To oversee a process, work, or workers during execution or performance; to superintend and have the oversight and direction of.

To give an oblique direction to; to shape, form, or cut obliquely.

To subtract or take away, especially from a total or amount.

To produce a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound, like thunder.

To restore something to good condition, making it new again; to repair or improve.

To forcefully push something forward from behind.

To determine or find out something with certainty or assurance; to discover the facts or truth.

To walk with a regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; to advance in step in an organized body.

To force open or apart using leverage; as a noun, it refers to the act of using leverage to open or separate something.

To walk with long steps, displaying vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.

To prevent free breathing by stifling or suffocating, often through smoke or other means.

To tend to meet at a point or line; to incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.

To support or defend something, especially in the face of opposition or criticism.

To scatter drops or particles of a liquid, powder, etc.

To assume or take on a task, performance, or responsibility; to make an attempt to do something.

To uproot and relocate a plant from one location to another.

To firmly place or fix something, such as ideas or principles, in a child's mind or another object.

To guide the movement of something, such as a bicycle, by using a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.

To beat someone soundly as a form of punishment; to flog.