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Exacerbate

[verb] 
MEANING: 

aggravate; increase intensity, bitterness or violence

 

Condign

[adjective] 
MEANING: 

appropriate; well-deserved

 

 

Expedite

[verb] 
MEANING: 

1. to speed up or hasten the progress of
2. to accomplish or execute promptly
3. to issue or dispatch, say, an official letter

 

Portmanteau 

[noun] 
MEANING: 

a word formed by combining the meanings and sounds of two different words

 

Libertine 

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. a person who lives without moral restraint
2. a person who is a freethinker