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- reproduce β to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- capture β If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- curse β If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- blackball β If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
- disallow β to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- interdict β Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
- banish β If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- illegalize β to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- secure β free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- lock β a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
- bolt β A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
- cinch β If you say that something is a cinch, you mean that you think it is very easy to do.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- draw β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- fasten β to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- fold β to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- slam β the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
- imprison β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- cage β A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- clam β Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
- dampen β To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
- soft-pedal β to use the soft pedal.
- quiet β making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- shush β to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.
- hush β to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
- lull β to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
- deaden β If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- still β remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- quieten β to become quiet (often followed by down).
- overawe β to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
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- audit β When an accountant audits an organization's accounts, he or she examines the accounts officially in order to make sure that they have been done correctly.
- search β to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- review β a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- analysis β Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
- surveillance β a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- investigation β the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
- inquiry β a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge.
- inspection β the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- sifting β to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- deduction β A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- conception β A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
- conviction β a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
- inference β the act or process of inferring.
- slant β to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- say-so β one's personal statement or assertion.
- persuasion β the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.