Analogies: Prefixes from Anglo-Saxon

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Impress is to dazzle as decorate is to __________.

bedeck

cover

blandish

inculcate

festive

Explanation

The word "bedeck" generally means decorate. However, the prefix "be-"can also function as an intensifier meaning thoroughly. To "bedeck" something is to decorate it thoroughly. To be "bedecked" is to be covered or decorated very completely. Just as something dazzling is very illuminated, so too is something bedecked "very decorated."

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