"Divest" and "deprive" both means to dispossess or take off. "Maintain" means to care for or keep up. "Wane" means to diminish or lessen. "Goad" means to egg on or incite. "Beguile" means to fool or charm. 

The word “concoct” most generally means to make by combining together a number of parts or ingredients. For instance, one could refer to a stew or a potion as a “concoction.” The word can take on the further meaning of something that has been put together untruthfully, as when someone concocts a story to cover up the truth. The word “fabricate” does literally mean to make, but it also can have the same negative sense of to come up with a false tale.

Confer means to grant or bestow something.

"Abdicate" means to relinquish or give up power, position, or authority. "Manifest" means to make clear or obvious. "Assuage" means to soothe or relieve. "Dissemble" means to disguise or pretend. "Arbitrate" means to achieve a settlement or straighten out. 

"Abstain" means to forgo or hold back from doing something. "Abscond" means to run away or depart secretly. "Garner" means to collect or accumulate. "Incite" means to encourage or provoke. "Fathom" means to discern or understand. 

"Provoke" means to start, and the word closest in meaning to that is incite.

"Engender" and "induce" both mean to cause to happen or to cause an action. "Repress" means to keep back or hold in. "Juxtapose" means to place side by side. "Mitigate" means to diminish or lighten. "Pilfer" means to steal or embezzle. 

Something "contrived" is devised or "invented."

The word impair does not have to do with “two” things (as you might think from “pair”). Instead, it is related to the same Latin root that underlies the word “pejorative,” which means “contemptuous” or “disapproving.” A pejorative word is negative and can be hurtful. When someone is impaired, he or she is weakened or made worse. While one could speak of something like “impairing the process of making the product,” the term is most often used with reference to human abilities. For instance, consider the sentence, “The four glasses of wine impaired John’s coordination, so he thought it better to have someone else drive home.”

The word “conserve” likely is associated with the word “conservative” for you. The latter does have to deal with certain aspects of political thought concerned with “retaining the past,” but the signification of that word is not simple. The general sense conveyed by words related to “conserve” is that of “preserving” or “retaining.” A conservative person desires to retain the customs, ideas, or morals of a past age. Any other notions are added to this basic and foundational signification, which is best expressed by “safeguard.”