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- stimulate
to encourage or help an activity to begin or develop further
the President’s plan to stimulate economicgrowth
- enhance
to improve something
Some say that travelling abroad will enhance your job opportunities.
- abandon
to leave someone, especially someone you are responsible for
How could she abandon her own child?
- persuade
to make someone decide to do something, especially by giving them reasons why they should do it, or asking them many times to do it
I finally managed to persuade her to go out for a drink with me.
- breed
if animals breed, they mate in order to have babies
It can be difficult to breed wild animals in a zoo.
- convey
to communicate or express something, with or without using words
Smiles can convey many different emotions.
- puzzle
to confuse someone or make them feel slightly anxious because they do not understand something
Her strange behavior at the party puzzled us.
- cope
to succeed in dealing with a difficult problem or situation
She feared she wouldn’t be able to cope with new baby.
- permit
to allow something to happen, especially by an official decision, rule, or law
Dogs are not permitted inside the shop.
- suspect
to think that something is probably true, especially something bad
She strongly suspected he was lying to her.
- upset
unhappy and worried because something unpleasant or disappointing has happened
She was deeply upset about the way her father treated her.
- sequence
the order that something happens or exists in, or the order it is supposed to happen or exist in
The questions should be asked in a logical sequence.
- witness
someone who sees a crime or an accident and can describe what happened
The police are searching for the witnesses to the accident.
- burden
- tone
- exception
- clue
- boundary
- habitat
- conservation
- predator
- bias
- cooperation
- patent
- dialogue
- component
- principal
- equivalent
- rational
- relavant
- extinct
- mere
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