dissimulate, prevaricate, equivocate, aggrandise, discomfit, acquiesce, dissemble, extenuate, misgovern, winston churchill, countenance, misconceive, outwait, castigate, abjuring, constitutionalize, warmongering, confabulate, tu quoque, conciliate, moralize, balkanise, grovel, reprove, accede, enfeeble, brazening, sermonise, coopt, faute de mieux, confront, speechify, condescend, tyrannise, parti pris, misruling, cavil, relativize, defenestrate, bureaucratize, chasten, resiling, disunite, betray, abstract noun, hegelian dialectic, capitulate, dissatisfy, foreswear, misspeaks, reproaches, misunderestimate, supplicate, tyrannize, cui bono, ossify, pretend, counterpose, inhere, upbraid, truckling, droit du seigneur, naysay, mythologise, peradventure, psychoanalyze, lionise, pussyfoot, islamic ummah, expatiate, sentimentalise, abdicate, toadying, amour propre, faits accomplis, reifying, mollifies, premising, forgive, bestirred, unbudging, demur, kowtowing, mollycoddle, europeanize, spited, radicalizes, embolden, quailing, scorning, ostracise, forked tongue, sabre rattling, overpraise, moralise, inculpate, arrogates, loth, genuflect, importune, misadvised

draw out, extend, prolong, protract