Account (for) - explain

Advantage - favorable trait (e.g. height is a natural advantage for volleyball)

Affect (v.) - to adopt (a behavior); affected (adj.) - behaving in an artificial/ pretentious 

way

Afford - grant (e.g. an opportunity)

Air - demeanor (e.g. to carry yourself with an air of authority)

Arrangement - situation

Arrest - put a stop to (not just put handcuffs on a criminal)

Assume - take on responsibility for, acquire (eg. to assume a new position)

Attending - accompanying (e.g. the benefits attending the new job)

Basic - essential, fundamental

Becoming (adj.) - fitting, flattering

Boost - improve, promote

Broad - worldly (e.g. a broad view of society)

Bulk - majority (e.g. to complete the bulk of an assignment)

Calculated - plotted out

Capacity - ability

Chance (v.) - attempt

Check - control (eg. The vaccine checked the spread of the disease)

Clear - obvious, unmistakable

Coin (v.) - invent (e.g. coin a phrase)

Common - shared

Compromise (v.) - endanger or make vulnerable (eg. to compromise one's beliefs)

Conditions - circumstances (eg. conditions under which a chemical reaction could occur

Constitution - build (e.g. a football player has a solid constitution)

Conviction - strong belief (noun form of convinced)

Couch (v.) - hide

Critical - essential, necessary

Curious - odd

Currency - acceptance, approval (of an idea

Direct (v.) - guide

Discriminating - perceptive

Disposed - inclined

Distant - aloof, emotionally uninvolved

Doctor (v.) - tamper with, alter