C1 · Advanced

Verbs for Evaluation & Response

Use verbs for examining, challenging and responding to claims, with attention to agency, complements and formal register.

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Words & phrases: 106
Lessons: 2
Conversations: 1
Readings: 1

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to lay bare, to expose, to reveal
to investigate thoroughly, to get to the bottom of
to pin down, to narrow down, to close in on
to clarify, to resolve
to disentangle, to elucidate, to sort out
to interpret, to construe, to expound
to attribute, to ascribe
to give rise to, to spawn, to provoke
to condition, to be a precondition for
to launch, to get (a project) underway
to fulfill, to meet, to live up to
to honor, to meet (a demand or obligation)
to stem from, to originate in
to tone down, to play down
to escalate, to step up, to intensify
to de-escalate, to wind down, to scale back
to come to a head, to intensify
to dwindle, to wane, to shrink
to expedite, to hasten, to speed up
to disregard, to override, to set aside
to overrule, to invalidate, to reject
to reject, to dismiss, to throw out
to acknowledge, to admit, to realize
to consolidate, to entrench, to cement
to wind down, to phase out, to settle
to circumvent, to get around, to evade
to obscure, to veil, to cover up
to distort, to garble, to misrepresent
to encourage, to prompt, to urge
to thwart, to foil, to frustrate
to stagnate
to obliterate
to destabilize
to traumatize
to beautify
to stupefy
to mollify
to demystify
to brighten
to darken
to blacken
to harden
to flatten
to sadden
to abdicate
to abhor
to take up (a position), to accede
to acquiesce
to adjudicate
to allay
to award, to allocate
to allude
to accumulate, to amass
to eradicate, to exterminate
to annotate
to apportion
to apprehend
to assail
to assassinate
to assimilate
to astound
to attest
to dampen
to debunk
to decimate
to decipher
to efface
to eject
to garner
to discredit
to dictate
to malign
to sympathize
to articulate, to enunciate
to outweigh
to proselytize
to foreshadow, to herald
to supersede
to capitulate
to extol
to elicit
to brand, to stigmatize
to disparage
to approve of, to sanction
to deter
to obviate
to acquit
to implicate
to fasten
to horrify
to irritate
to overcome
to seize
to mourn
to narrate
to proceed
to scatter
to accentuate
to acquaint with
to ascend
to dabble in
to fathom
to preclude
to alleviate the burden
to belie
to equivocate

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Lesson 1
Verbs for Evaluation and Response
Lesson 2
Investigating What Went Wrong

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