| A | B |
|---|
| accelerate | to speed up, increase the speed |
| velocity | accelerate RW - speed or rate of motion in a quantitiave sense |
| celerity | accelerate RW - speed or swiftness in a qualitative or literary sense |
| expedite | accelerate RW - to speed up |
| decelerate | accelerate ANT |
| compensate | to make up for, pay, remunderate |
| recompense | compensate RW - to provide compensation in the form of good or evil |
| reimburse | compensate RW - to pay back money someone has spent for you |
| indemnify | compensate RW - to pay or agree to pay for losses someone suffers on your account |
| indemnity | compensate RW - a sum paid or promised |
| reparation | compensate RW - to pay in some way for damage one has done or caused to someone else |
| exaggerate | to overstate, magnify, inflate |
| adulation | exaggeration RW |
| blandishments | exaggeration RW |
| idolization | exaggeration RW |
| panegyric | exaggeration RW |
| eulogy | exaggeration RW |
| grandioseness | exaggeration RW - an exaggerated sense of the bigness, importance, or magnitude of a plan, a dream, or an undertaking |
| hyperbole | exaggeration RW - poetic exaggeration |
| caricature | exaggeration RW - the exaggeration of certain typical details of a face, a policy, or a work of art, usually for amusing or satiric effect |
| underestimate | exaggeration ANT |
| belittle | exaggeration ANT |
| deflate | exaggeration ANT |
| depreciate | exaggeration ANT |
| humiliate | to lower the self-respect of, mortify |
| humus | humiliate ROOT - earth |
| exalt | humiliate ANT |
| honor | humiliate ANT |
| glorify | humiliate ANT |
| pride | humiliate ANT |
| vanity | humiliate ANT |
| conceit | humiliate ANT |
| impale | to pierce, thrust through |
| transfix | impale RW - standing still as if pierced |
| jeopardize | to endanger |
| perpetrate | to perform, carry out |
| transact | perpetrate RW - |
| evolve | perpetrate RW - to roll something out gradually, by slow and steady improvement |
| effect | perpetrate RW - to bring about |
| execute | perpetrate RW - to act or take action on a matter so as to carry it to completion |
| executive | perpetrate RW - a person, presumably possessing initiative and good judgment, appointed to administer laws, business, or other affairs |
| prosecute | perpetrate RW - to follow up, or follow through, on something that needs to be done, especially with regard to bringing criminals to court for trial |
| maneuver | perpetrate RW - to use indirect or even underhanded means to accomplish something |
| promulgate | to make known, spread widely |
| propogate | promulgate RW - to spread or promote, especially by persons dedicated to a task |
| disseminate | promulgate RW - to distribute information widely |
| proclaim | promulgate RW - oral announcement with authority and often with joy |
| bruit | promulgate RW - to spread something quietly or insistently |
| edict | promulgate RW - an order, once the privilege of rulers, now a means used by bureaucrats and entrepreneurs |
| encyclical | promulgate RW - a message from the Pope, especially for Roman Catholics |
| pronouncement | promulgate RW - a dictum/statement from authority, usually after careful consideration |
| manifesto | promulgate RW - a rather formal and somewhat pretentious pronouncement for all to see |
| resuscitate | to revive, bring back to life |
| recuperate | resuscitate RW - to regain strength, to recover from exhaustion, illness, or some other debilitating experience |
| simulate | to feign, pretend, imitate |
| metaphor | an implied comparison |
| mixed metaphor | metaphor RW - confused and ridiculous because it telescopes/merges two metaphors |
| moron | person of low intelligence, fool |
| nonentity | a person or thing of no importance |
| parity | equality, equivalence |
| disparity | parity RW - difference; the state of being unequal |
| par | parity RW - the original state of something |
| satellite | a small body revolving around a larger one; a person, group, nation dependent on a larger one |
| scroll | an ancient rolled manuscript |
| simile | an expressed comparison |
| similitude | simile RW - likeness |
| sovereign | the supreme ruler, monarch |
| stratum | a layer or level |
| tenacity | unyielding firmness |
| perseverance | tenacity RW - patience plus tenacity |
| persistence | tenacity RW - implies repetition or determined continuance |
| obstinacy/pertinacity | tenacity RW - stubborn perseverance |
| doggedness | tenacity RW |
