Choose a word from your own vocabulary, and write a sentence in which you provide a context clue of synonym replacement. identify your term by bolding it and your synonym restatement with italics.

The answer is:

Word: withhold.

Synonym: retain.

Sentence:

The FBI withheld the data requested by the prosecutor; as a result, it retained the material and refused to provide further information.

Withhold means to refuse to give something that is due or requested. Similarly, its synonym retain signifies to keep possession of something.