THE IZE OR ISE HAVE IT III 

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue below will be a word ending in either IZE or ISE.

1. Guess, infer

2. Turn over, as a boat 

3. Renounce one's faith

4. Make mutual concessions

5. Clean to make free of bacteria

6. Divide into opposite extremes, as in politics

7. Underwrite financially, as by the government

8. A project, undertaking, company, or business venture

9. Create and perform spontaneously, without preparation

10. To serve as a perfect example of a particular quality or type

11. Regard with awe, make larger than life - as celebrities or athletes

12. Use humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize faults

13. Right to vote or a business that provides the product or service of a parent company

14. Make something coherent by combining ideas, or produce something natural by artificial means 

Answers:

 

1. Surmise

2. Capsize

3. Apostatize

4. Compromise 

5. Sterilize

6. Polarize

7. Subsidize

8. Enterprise

9. Improvise

10. Epitomize

11. Lionize

12. Satirize

13. Franchise

14. Synthesize