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accelerate to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about more quickly bystander one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part canvass to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions casual happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal downtrodden treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed entice to attract, tempt erode to wear away gradually, eat away flounder to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way graphic lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts gruesome horrible, revolting, ghastly melancholy sad, gloomy, unhappy; sadness, gloominess ordeal a difficult or painful experience, a trial parch to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat persist to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain puny of less than normal strength or size; weak, sickly; of no importance quibble to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection ratify to approve, give formal approval to, confirm regal royal, kinglike; fit for a king stifle to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off vital having life, living; necessary to life, essential; key, crucial