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  Word Descriptions condone, deliberate, warrant, scourge, disentangle, ruminate, flinch, impede, salvage, coddle


   
Description of condone (verb)
to overlook; to forgive; to pardon

Samples of condone
The loving and forgiving mother condoned her son's life of crime.
I will condone your actions of negligence.



   
Description of deliberate (verb)
to consider; to ponder; to discuss

Samples of deliberate
The jury deliberated for three days before reaching a verdict.



   
Description of warrant (verb)
to justify; to authorize; to permit; to entitle; to empower; to sanction

Samples of warrant
The police official warranted the arrest of the suspect once enough proof had been found.



   
Description of scourge (verb)
to whip severely; to flog; to lash; to chastise

Samples of scourge
Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened.
Certainly it can be concluded that the circumstances of Sisson's early life fuelled his salutary hatreds and helped form the outsider's perspective which now makes him a scourge of the age's insidious orthodoxies.



   
Description of disentangle (verb)
to free from confusion; to extricate; to unknot; to release; to undo

Samples of disentangle
We need to disentangle ourselves from the dizzying variety of choices.



   
Description of ruminate (verb)
to consider carefully; to think through; to ponder; to chew cud

Samples of ruminate
The doctor will ruminate on his diagnosis.
Facing a tough decision, he decided to ruminate before making his thoughts known.



   
Description of flinch (verb)
to wince; to drawback; to retreat; to recoil; to shrink

Samples of flinch
The older brother made his younger sister flinch when he jokingly tried to punch her arm.



   
Description of impede (verb)
to stop the progress of; to obstruct; to delay; to hinder; to prevent

Samples of impede
The rain impeded the work on the building.



   
Description of salvage (verb)
to rescue from loss; to save from destruction

Samples of salvage
The family tried to salvage their belongings after their home was destroyed by a tornado.



   
Description of coddle (verb)
to treat with tenderness; to pamper

Samples of coddle
A baby needs to be coddled.



  Determinations of the words condone, deliberate, warrant, scourge, disentangle, ruminate, flinch, impede, salvage, coddle

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