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Shahriar Mohammad Kamal:
Prepone (V): Bring (something) forward to an earlier date or time.

Shahriar Mohammad Kamal:
Puzzlewit (Adj.): That puzzles or would puzzle one's wit.

Shahriar Mohammad Kamal:
Thwart (V): Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

Shahriar Mohammad Kamal:
Endeavour (V): Try hard to do or achieve something.

Shampa Iftakhar:
spawn:

verb: spawn; 3rd person present: spawns; past tense: spawned; past participle: spawned; gerund or present participle: spawning

    1.   (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs.
                 "the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants"
       
    2.  derogatory (of a person) produce (offspring). or produce or generate a large number of.
   example:  "why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that?"
     
       "the decade spawned a bewildering variety of books on the forces"
       
synonyms:   give rise to, bring about, occasion, generate, engender, originate, lead to, result in, effect, induce, initiate, start, set off; More
        breed, bear, give birth to;
        provoke, precipitate, spark off, trigger;
        contribute to, make for, be conducive to, foster, promote;
        literarybeget
        "he wrote in a dry style that spawned hundreds of imitations"

noun: spawn

   
    3. the mycelium of a fungus, especially a cultivated mushroom.
    "a supplier of spawn for shiitake mushrooms"

Origin
late Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.
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