v. hoax (*) to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive (*) to dirty; to stain; to sully; to soil (*) to scrape or shave off; to obliterate; to tear down completely; to demolish (*) to avoid; to outwit; to get around

v. extirpate (*) to attract; to tempt; to charm (*) to draw out; to extract from (*) to refer indirectly to something; to hint (*) to root out; to destroy totally; to eradicate

v. flaunt (*) to smile in a silly or affected way; to smirk (*) to foil; to thwart; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle (*) to display or wave boastfully (*) to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite

v. ensue (*) to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite (*) to follow; to result (*) to speak angrily or bitterly; to protest forcefully; to rant (*) to cancel by authority; to terminate; to abolish

v. concede (*) to guess; to speculate; to surmise; to hypothesize; to infer (*) to postpone; to put off to another time; to delay; to hold back (*) to surrender; to admit; to give up; to yield (*) to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; to slander

adj. sleazy (*) carefully attentive; diligent; persistent; hard-working (*) mutual; having the same relationship to each other; common; joint (*) flimsy and cheap; shabby; cheap (*) separate; individual

v. fathom (*) to give up; to put off until later (*) to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit (*) to understand; to get to the bottom of; to measure the depth of (*) to imprison; to detain; to jail

v. abandon (*) to use for one's selfish purpose (*) to leave behind; to give something up (*) to exercise self control; to keep from; to refrain from (*) to calm; to lessen in severity; to mollify; to relieve

v. consecrate (*) to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive (*) to variegate; to make different; to increase the product range of a company; to offer new products (*) to declare sacred; to dedicate; to bless (*) to restate in a brief; concise form; to sum up; conclude; to summarize

v. deprecate (*) to speak or write at great length; to describe in full (*) to express disapproval of; to protest against; to disparage; belittle (*) to speak out against; to condemn; to accuse; to censure (*) to forecast; to foretell; to diagnose