"Pilfer" means steal, so "steal" is the correct answer.

"Encumber" is a verb that means "restrict or burden someone or something in such a way that free action or movement is difficult," so we need to find another word that means something like "burden." While "restriction" might look like a good answer because "restriction" and "encumbrance" are synonymous, "restriction" is a noun and "encumber" is a verb, so "restriction" cannot be the right answer. However, "hamper," when used as a verb, means ": to slow the movement, progress, or action of someone or something." Because "hamper" is the answer choice closest in meaning to "encumber," "hamper" is the correct answer.

“Partition” is a word that can be used as a noun or a verb, but because all of the answer choices can be used as verbs, we will need to consider “partition” as a verb. When used as a verb, “partition” means “divide into parts,” so we need to pick out an answer choice that means something like “divide.” That means that “conjoin” cannot be the correct answer, because “conjoin” means “join; combine,” making it an antonym, not a synonym, of “partition.” “Separate,” however, is a word that when used as a verb can mean “cause to move or be apart” or “form a distinction or boundary between two things,” and because “separate” is the answer choice closest in meaning to “partition,” “separate” is the correct answer.

“Jostle” is a verb that means either “push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd” or when used in the phrase “jostle for,“ “struggle or compete forcefully for.” So, we need to pick out an answer choice that means something like “push roughly” or something like “compete forcefully for.” While “leap” and “twirl” might each look like a potentially correct answer because each verb describes a movement a person might make, and “jostle” also describes a movement, neither “leap” nor “twirl” means the same thing as “jostle,” so neither can be the correct answer. “Shove,” however, is a verb that means “push (someone or something) roughly,” and because “shove” is the answer choice closest in meaning to “jostle,” “shove” is the correct answer.

If you "dilute" something, you make it weaker, so "weaken" is the correct answer. For clarification, "strengthen" means make stronger, "insinuate" means imply or suggest, and "elongate" means to make longer and is an antonym of "shorten," which means to make shorter.

"Douse" means to pour liquid on something, so "soak" is the correct answer. "Flee" means to run away or to escape. "Baffle" means to confuse. "Display" means to show. "Gather" means to come together or to collect.

"Hoist" means to lift or to lift using a rope. "Swing" means to sway or to move back and forth. "Destroy" means to end or to demolish. "Confuse" means bewilder. "Attend" means be present at.

If you “deviate,” you do something that is different from what is usual or expected,so you make “a detour” from what is normal. To further help you, "degenerate” is similar in meaning to "deviant" and means a person who takes a detour from what is accepted by society; a “renegade” is a person who is disloyal or someone who does not respect orders; “to falter” is to begin to fail or weaken.

"Recline" means to lie down.

"Waver" is a verb that means to tremble or it means to be indecisive, depending on context.

"Gamble" means to bet money or to play games of chance.

"Fray" means to come apart at the edges, and refers to objects that involve stitching or cloth.

"Desert" means to abandon somebody or to escape or flee.

"Exhume" means to dig up a corpse.