| Term | Definition |
| accelerate | to speed up, increase the speed |
| compensate | to make up for, pay, remunerate |
| exxagerate | to overstate, magnify, inflate |
| humiliate | to lower the self-respect of, mortify |
| impale | to pierce, thrust through |
| jeopardize | to endanger |
| perpetrate | pt perform, carry out |
| promulgate | to make known, spead widely |
| resuscitate | to revive, bring back to life |
| simulate | to feign, pretend, imitate |
| metaphor | an implied comparison |
| moron | peson of low intelligence, fool |
| nonentity | a person or thing of no imporance |
| parity | equality, equivaleince |
| satellite | a small body revolving around a larger one; a person, group, nation dependent on a larger one |
| scroll | an ancient rolled manuscript |
| simile | an expressed comparison |
| sovereign | the supreme ruler, monarch |
| stratum | a layer or level |
| tenacity | unyielding firmness |