23/8/2019 Flashcards
Domestic
Domestic servant
Domesticate
Attempts to tame and domesticate these creatures were met with mixed results, and even though some had proven docile enough to use as mounts, there was always the slight element of unpredictability about them.”
Imperial
envisioned an imperial city that would rival the capitals of Europe for beauty and magnificence.”
Conquest
Takeover
Subvert
Ruin
Abdication
Resignation
Connivance
Collaboration
Contest
An event in which people compete for supremacy in a sport or other activity, or in a quality
Connive
Not take into consideration
Contingency
A future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty
Reciprocal
The word mutual is a near synonym in most uses: reciprocal/mutual friendship, describing, a relationship in which two people feel the same way about each other, or do or give similar things to each other. If you tell someone you like them and they say, “The feelings are reciprocal,” that means they like you too. In math, a reciprocal is a number that when multiplied by a given number gives one as a product.