SAT Word Skills 4 - Урок 50

to help someone to restore to a healthy and independent state after a period of imprisonment, addiction, illness, etc.

реабилитировать

to make a counterattack or respond in a similar manner

мерить месть

appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use

растрачивать

to soften or break down food by soaking it in a liquid, often a flavored liquid like wine or vinegar

мацерировать

make imperfect

порочить

to officially start or introduce something

вводить в действие

assign a name or title to

назначить

to state one's opinion in such a manner that shows one believes to be the only person to fully know it and be unarguably correct

понтировать

pull up by or as if by the roots

изыскать

to work with someone else in order to create something or reach the same goal

сотрудничать

fall into decay or ruin

разрушать

(of a monarch or ruler) to step down from a position of power

отказываться от престола

to create a series of holes in something, typically for the purpose of making separation or tearing easier

прокалывать

to chew food by biting and grinding it with the teeth

жевать

to appoint a person or thing to a lower status, position, or rank

понизить

to remove water from a substance, often causing it to become dry

обезвоживать

to fertilize a woman's egg with sperm, resulting in pregnancy

оплодотворять

to introduce new ideas, methods, or products to improve or change the current way of doing things

инновировать

to officially take away something from someone, usually as punishment

конфисковать

to free someone or something from a difficult or entangled situation

вытаскивать