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Associations of "At stake" (30 Words)
| adhere | Be compatible or in accordance with. They adhered to their plan. |
| bonus | Anything that tends to arouse. Big Christmas bonuses. |
| bush | Vegetation growing in the bush. Bush justice. |
| dividend | An individual s share of a dividend. Buying a rail pass may still pay dividends. |
| drill | Make a hole in something by boring with a drill. The troops were drilling. |
| hammer | Beat with or as if with a hammer. Hammer the silver into a bowl. |
| harpoon | Spear with a harpoon. Gilbert s father harpooned a five metre basking shark. |
| impale | Transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument. Impale a shrimp on a skewer. |
| income | The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. He has a nice home and an adequate income. |
| invest | Make an investment. Getting workers to invest in private pension funds. |
| lace | Pass a lace or cord through a hole. A lace collar. |
| lance | A weapon resembling a lance used in hunting fish or whales. Pain lanced through her. |
| payment | The action or process of paying someone or something or of being paid. Ask for a discount for payment by cash. |
| pinch | Irritate as if by a nip pinch or tear. I was pinched for dangerous driving last month. |
| poke | Prod and stir a fire with a poker to make it burn more fiercely. Don t forget to poke holes in the dough to allow steam to escape. |
| porcupine | A large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail. |
| prickle | (of a person) react defensively or angrily to something. The sound made her skin prickle with horror. |
| prickly | Covered in prickles. Prickly velvet seats. |
| protrude | Of an animal cause a body part to protrude. When attacking it protrudes its long snout. |
| shareholder | An owner of shares in a company. |
| spear | Pierce with a spear. The branch speared up into the air. |
| spike | Render a gun useless by plugging up the vent with a spike. His hair was matted and spiked with blood. |
| spindle | A Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles. Chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis. |
| spinous | Shaped like a spine or thorn. The dorsal fin is spinous. |
| spiny | Having spines. A spiny problem. |
| stick | Come or be in close contact with stick or hold together and resist separation. Fever left him weak on his sticks. |
| sticker | An adhesive label or notice, generally printed or illustrated. She s a sticker. |
| sting | Cause an emotional pain as if by stinging. He felt the stinging of nettles. |
| thorn | A thorny bush shrub or tree especially a hawthorn. The issue has become a thorn in renewing the peace talks. |
| transfix | Pierce with a sharp implement or weapon. He was transfixed by the pain in her face. |