Advanced Vocabulary Lists and Exercises
Advanced Vocabulary List 10 (beta version)
- detect
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Maybe it was responding in some way they couldn't detect -- saying "shut up and give me some peace!" - Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - disclose
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Apparently the last thing Eet wanted to disclose was the life he might or might not have had before Valcyr swallowed the stone on the swamp world. - The Zero Stone
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - dominate
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She was one of the few people he was never able to dominate, and the two of them were never close. - Portrait of a Killer
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - emerge
- To come into view; to come out.
Eventually the truth will emerge.
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - endeavor
- To try very hard to achieve something.
We hoped that the president would endeavor to help the people.
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - imply
- To strongly suggest something.
The inevitable old chestnuts are here -- infer/imply, appraise/apprise, etc. -- but most of the 250 or so entries in these - VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - provoke
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I mean, that's what insurgency, that's what terrorists are all about is they want to provoke -- they don't have enough numbers so they want to provoke an overwhelming response that's going to alienate local people and rally people to their cause. - CNN Transcript May 15, 2009
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - revoke
- To take back by reversing; to cancel the validity of something.
The judge said that he would revoke my driver's license if I got another speeding ticket.
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - speculate
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I can only speculate, as the Legend is my father's invention and not my own. - A Traitor to Memory
Google Wiktionary Wordnik - sustain
- To continue, support or maintain something.
Even as he is in prison on false charges, Max has sustained his belief in the justice system.
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