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accentuate
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    She shot the film in black-and-white to accentuate her use of shadows.
    accentuate = emphasize
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    Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture.  (source)
    accentuate = draw attention
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    She was wearing one of those scrappy tank tops that accentuated her tan, and all I could think was that she was the sexiest woman I'd ever seen.  (source)
    accentuated = emphasized or drew attention to
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    She wore a blue gingham dress, rimmed at throat and shoulders with a white edging that accentuated her tan.  (source)
    accentuated = emphasized or drew attention to
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    What I found was a black man with a warm disposition and a booming voice, who bristled with energy and was constantly in motion, his hands swooping like birds in flight to accentuate his points.†  (source)
    accentuate = emphasize or draw attention to
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    With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon.  (source)
    accentuating = emphasizing
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    Or, steeped catlike in the wickedness of darkness, adrift in the brooding promise of the neighborhood, they would cluster silently under a Jew's home, grouped in a sniggering huddle as they listened to the rich excited voices, the throaty accentuation of the women; or convulsed at the hysterical quarrels which shook the Jew-walls almost nightly.†  (source)
    accentuation = the act of emphasizing or drawing attention to
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Rouge accentuates the natural paleness of her complexion.†  (source)
    accentuates = emphasizes or draws attention to
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    Noelle was clad in a body-hugging red knit dress that accentuated her ample curves.†  (source)
    accentuated = emphasized or drew attention to
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    Instead, the pants just accentuate the frailty of his frame.†  (source)
    accentuate = emphasize or draw attention to
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    A hint of lace had been added at her cleavage, accentuating the fact that, at fourteen, Peony had already developed curves that Cinder couldn't begin to hope for.†  (source)
    accentuating = emphasizing or drawing attention to
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    He'll be a perfect 'gentleman,'" she went on, setting her teeth so as to give the word a kind of English accentuation.†  (source)
    accentuation = the act of emphasizing or drawing attention to
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    The face of the male Thenardier presented that expressive fold which accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears there in all its bestial force.†  (source)
    accentuates = emphasizes or draws attention to
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