19/20 Flashcards

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Commodity

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A product

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Accrue

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To accumulate

To increase

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3
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Chicanery

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Trickery

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4
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Apocryphal

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Doubtful

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5
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Conglomerate

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A corporation made up of a number of companies

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Arbiter

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The judge in a dispute

A person who chose to judge

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Feign

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To pretend

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Bona fide

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Authentic (real, genuine)

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Liquidate

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To settle a debt by selling something off

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10
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Audit

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To examine finances

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Insidious

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Secretly harmful

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12
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Candor

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Frankness (the quality of being open and honest in expression)

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Lucrative

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Profitable (producing a great deal of profit.)

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Cartel

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Group of business formed to control pricing

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15
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Rectitude

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Righteousness

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16
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Cant

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Boring talk filled with platitudes

hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature.

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Security

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A stock or bond

18
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Collateral

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Something pledged as a security for a loan

19
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Veritable

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Real, actual

20
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Charlatan

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An imposter 
(a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud)