Headline Abbreviations

• accord - agreement
• allay – calm
• allot – apportion
• anew – again
• assail - attack
• bare - reveal
• blast - criticize
• cite - enumerate
• confab - conference
• cop - police
• curb - control
• cut - decrease
• dip - decrease
• draw fire - to be criticized
• dry run - rehearsal
• due - deadline
• feud - quarrel
• foil - stop
• gab - conference
• grill - question
• hail - welcome
• hike - increase
• hit - attack
• inquiry - investigation
• ink - sign
• junk - decline
• kin - family
• kit - package
• letup - temporary easing up
• link - connect
• lull - calm
• meet - conference
• megman - movie director
• memo - memorandum
• mull - plans
• mum - silent
• nab - arrest
• nix - reject
• okay - approve
• peg - to fix at a certain amount