Rhetorically Accurate Verbs - AP Lang

Accentuate

make more noticeable or prominent

Demonstrate

to show clearly

Champion

to defend or support

Envision

To picture in the mind; to imagine

Amplify

to make larger, louder, or more powerful

Enrich

to improve the quality of something

Advocate

to recommend; to speak in favor of

Patronize

treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

Augment

to make larger, increase

Extrapolate

to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information

Elucidate

to make clear, to explain

Innundate

to overwhelm, to flood with information

Delineate

to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially

Muse

to think about in a dreamy way, ponder

Initiate

To begin or put into practice

Infer/Deduce

to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply

Postulate

hypothesize; propose

Rationalize

justify; give reason for

Repudiate

to disown, reject, or deny the validity of

Vacillate

to swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will

Discern

to perceive or recognize

Denounce

publicly declare to be wrong or evil

Unpack

to take a complicated thing and look at each part to makes sense of it

Transcend

to rise above or beyond, exceed

Suppress

to stop by force, put down, to hold back an idea or movement

Ridicule

to make fun of, to mock

Juxtapose

to place side by side for comparison

Overstate

to state in exaggerated terms

Foreshadow

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Escalate

to elevate; to increase in intensity

Downplay

to minimize; to represent as being insignificant; to play down

Chronicle

a record of events in order of time; a history