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VOCABULARY
PROPOUND
 Verb
 To suggest an idea to person to consider
 Offer, propose
MALFEASANCE
 Illegal or dishonest activity especially by
a public official.
 Misconduct
PRECLUDE
 Verb
 To make something impossible
 To prevent someone from doing
something.
TAMPER
 Verb
 To weaken or change for a worse.
STIPULATION
 Noun
 Something that is required as part of an
argument.
CONSTRUE
 Verb
 To understand in a particular way,
 To understand the meaning.
CLEMENCY
 Noun
 Kind or merciful treatment of someone
who could be given harsh punishment.
MITIGATE
 Verb
 To make something less severe, harmful
or painful.
IMPOSITION
 Noun
 A demand that is not reasonable or that
causes trouble.
 The act of establishing something in an
official way.
RECKON
 Verb
 To think something, to believe that
something is true or possible.
 To calculate or guess

April 1, 2020
DETERRENCE
 Noun
 The act of making someone decide not
to do something: the act of preventing a
particular act.
PRISION MAYOR and TEMPORARY
DISQUALIFICATION
6 years and one day to 12 years

PRISION CORRECTIONAL,
SUSPENSION and DESTIERRO
6 months and one day to 6 years
ARRESTO MAYOR
One month and one day to six months

ARRESTO MENOR
One day to thirty days
PROCURE
 Verb
 To get something by some action
 To find or provide (a prostitute) for
someone.
 Acquire, attain
NEVERTHELESS
 Gayonpaman
 In spite of
 Anyway
 However
 somewise
THEREFROM
 Mula roon
 From that place
 Hence
 Hereof
 From this
COERCE
 Verb
 To make someone do something by
using force or threats
 To get something by using force
 He was coerced into signing the
document.
HAMPER
 Verb
 To slow the movement, progress, or
action of someone/thing.
 Handicap, hold up
 Construction is hampering traffic on the
highway.
NOTWITHSTANDING
 Preposition
 Without being prevented by something
 Regardless of
 In spite of what has just been said
 Although

April 2, 2020
FURTHERANCE
 Noun
 The act of helping something to become
more successful or advanced.
 Progression, advancement
 They made the furtherance of science
their life’s work.
WITHHOLD
 Verb
 To hold something back
 To refuse to provaide something
 To take out from someone’s income
 Decline, disallow, reject, deny
 She was accused of wothholding
evidence.
CULMINATE
 Verb
 To reach the end or the final result of
something.
 Climax
MENIAL
 Noun
 A person who does unpleasant work for
little money.
 Slavish
MUTILATE
 Verb
 To cause severe damage to the body.
 To ruin the beauty of something.
THEREAT
 Adverb
 At that place
 Inducing the victim to be present
thereat.

April 3, 2020
CULL
 Verb
 To select or choose something/one from a
group.
 To control the size by killing some
animals.

April 4, 2020
ALLEVIATE
 Verb
 To reduce the pain or trouble of
something.
 To make something less painful.
 ease, relieve
 Finding ways to alleviate stress.
DEVASTATION
 To destroy much or most of something
 To cause great damage or harm
 To cause someone to feel extreme
emotional pain.
 The flood devastated the town.

April 5, 2020
MISSILE
 Capable of being thrown
 Adapted for throwing
 An object that is thrown, shot, or
launched as a weapon.
CREED
 Noun
 A statement of the basic beliefs of a
religion.
 An idea or set of beliefs that guides the
action of a person.
DEBRIS
 Noun
 The pieces that are left after something
has been destroyed.
 Things that are lying where they fell or
that have been left somewhere.
DUMP
 Verb
 To put something somewhere in a quick
and careless way.
 To leave or get rid of something/one
quickly or without concern.
 To end a romantic relationship with
someone.
 The murderer dumped the body in the
river.
ELUCIDATE
 Verb
 To make something clear or easy to
understand.
 Clarify, construe
 When asked for details, de declined to
elucidate further.
DECIPHER
 Verb
 To find the meaning of something that is
difficult to read or understand.
 decode
 I couldn’t decipher his sloppy
handwriting.
ANATHEMA
 Noun
 Someone/thing that is very strongly
disliked.
 ban
 A politician who is anathema to
conservatives.
QUEST
 Noun
 A journey made in search of something.
 A long and difficult effort to find or do
something.
 Search
 They went on a quest for gold.
 Verb
 To go on a journey to find something
 They were questing for gold.
TRENCH
 Noun
 A long, narrow hole that is dug in the
ground.
 Dug a trench and filled it with water
IMBUE
 Verb
 To cause someone/thing to deeply
affected by a feeling or to have certain
quality
 Infuse, invest
 A feeling of optimism imbues her works.
DISMAL
 Adjective
 Showing or causing unhappiness or sad
feelings
 Very bad or poor
 The team’s record is dismal.
CONGEST
 Verb
 To concentrate in a small or narrow
space.
 The usual weekend traffic congested the
region’s highways.
REVERT
 Verb
 return
 To come or go back former condition,
period or subject.
COMMISERATE
 Verb
 To express sadness for someone who
has experienced something unpleasant.
 The players commiserated over their
loss in the championship game.
HEREAFTER
 Adverb
 After this, from now on
 In a future time or state
 Hoped to be reunited with his deceased
wife in the hereafter.
WHEREBY
 Conjunction
 By which
APPARENT
 Adjective
 Easy to see or understand
 Seeming to be true but possibly not true.
 Evident, assumed
 From the beginning, it was apparent that
she was not an ordinary child.
OUTSOURCE
 Verb
 To send away work to be done by
people outside the company.
PECULIAR
 Adjective
 Not usual, or normal
 Not well, somewhat ill
 It seems peculiar that he would leave
town and not tell anybody.
DISCRETIONARY
 Adjective
 Available to be used when and how you
decide.
 Done or used when necessary.
 Optional, voluntary
PROVISION
 Noun
 The act or process of supplying
something.
 Something that is done in advance to
prepare for something else.
 A supply of food and other things that
are needed.
 You should make provision for
emergencies
ADJUDICATE
 Verb
 To make an official decision about who
is right in a dispute.
 Judge, referee
 The case was adjudicated in the state
courts.
ABIDE
 Verb
 To accept something bad
 To stay or live somewhere
 To remain or continue.
 Abide in the house of the Lord.
ADHERE
 Verb
 To stick to something, to attach firmly to
something.
 The stamp failed to adhere.
EMOLUMENT
 Noun
 The returns arising from the office or
employment usually in the form of
compensation.
 Wage, hire
LAWSUIT
 Noun
 A process by which a court of law makes
a decision to end a disagreement
between people or organizations.
RECTIFY
 Verb
 To correct something that is wrong.
 The hotel management promised to
rectify the problem.
OVERRIDE
 Verb
 To make something no longer valid.
 To have more importance than
something.
 To stop an action that is done
automatically by using a special
command.
 Congress overrode the President’s veto.
LODGE
 Verb
 To provide someone with a place to stay
for a short period of time.
 To become fixed In a specified place.
 The workers were lodged in temporary
camps.
ENCRYPT
 Verb
 To change information from one form to
another especially to hide its meaning.
 The software will encrypt the message
before it is sent.
DISPOSAL
 Noun
 The power to dispose of something.
 The disposal of nuclear waste.