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Power Verbs: The Complete Collection
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Power Verbs: The Complete Collection

by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1120 pages
25h 3m
English
Pearson
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7. 100 Top Action Verbs for Schooling, Sagacity, Shrewdness, and Other Times to Be Sharp and Serious

Abate

(1) die away; put an end to; reduce; slack; subside

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(1) “In striking contrast to Eisenhower, the young Democratic president secretly pledged to Chiang use of America’s veto in the Security Council to keep the P.R.C. out of the United Nations. Kennedy believed his sympathies would eventually necessitate blocking China and so, against the advice of his experts, he chose to benefit from the inevitable by trading his veto for Chiang’s cooperation on other issues. Kennedy’s suspicion of China appeared to grow rather than abate during his presidency. Although the split between Moscow and Beijing became increasingly ...

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