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Attenuate

To make smaller or less; to weaken.
1000 pages of perusal attenuates my will to live

Extenuating

Serving to excuse; lessening the seriousness of.
shrey is always extenuating serious circumstances

Tenuous

Not substantial or strong.
my grades are tenuously holding on

Pertinacious

Holding firmly to; stubborn.
the juniors pertinaciously try and make us do tutorials not knowing we do not care

Tenet

A principle or belief held as part of a religion or philosophy.
ms leals tenets of teaching are barrages of perusal and political opinion

Tenable

Able to be defended or supported.
ms leals political beliefs are untenable

Contend

To argue; to dispute.
i contend with myself who is better looking; timothy or josepg

Ostensible

Seeming, claimed, or pretended, but usually not genuine.
the ostensible reason of me calling timothy was to do hw but i lwk just wanted to talk

Portend

To be a sign or warning of.
mrs drescher giving us a page of notes portended to the quiz being hard

Distend

To swell; to expand.
the wave started to distend and engulf the stupid nonwater polo players who couldnt tread

Tendentious

Strongly biased.
ms leal is not tendentious in any way