Practice for Session 11 Words Tools A B brevity shortness comport to conduct or bear oneself, behave; to be in agreement concise expressing much in a few words demure sober or serious in manner, modest depreciation a lessening in value; to wear away deteriorate to lower in quality or value; to wear away divulge to tell, reveal; to make public enlightened free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding forestall to prevent by acting first garble to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible proponent one who puts forward a proposal; one who supports a cause or belief quaver to shake, tremble recoil to spring back, shrink; the act of springing back recoup to make up for regain reek an unpleasant smell; to give off an unpleasant smell relentless unyielding, harsh, without pity rivulet a small stream squander to spend foolishly, waste staccato detached or disconnected in sound or style statute a law