Vocabulary Builder, Tyler Grant

Answer- respond, react

Contract- covenant, treaty

Destroy- obliterate, butcher

Defeat- womp, drub

Increase- explode, optimize

Ridicule- lambast, satirize

Resign- walk out, abandon

Steal- grip, gyp

Wreck-mangle, disable

Thwart-snafu, trammel

Idolize- worship, parise

Money (for work done)- remuneration, recompense

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