C11-C20 Flashcards

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Cajole

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To urge with gentle methods

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Elicit

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To bring out

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Enjoin

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To prohibit or forbid

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Exigency

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Urgency, or a crisis situation

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Imperious

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Domineering; arrogant

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Injunction

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A command or order

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Mendicant

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A beggar

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Query

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A question

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Servile

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Slavish or submissive

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Abound

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To be plentiful

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Amplitude

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Greatness of size or range

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Augment

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To add to; to increase

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Behemoth

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A large, powerful thing

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Brevity

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Shortness of duration

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Diminish

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To lessen

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Infinitesimal

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Too small to measure

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Modicum

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A small amount

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Prodigious

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Extensive or extraordinary

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Quotidian

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Everyday; common

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Banal

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Commonplace

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Camouflage

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Concealment by disguise

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Emulate

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To imitate

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Mimicry

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Imitation

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Platitude

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Overused remark

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Prototype

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Test model

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Redundant

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More than necessary

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Rendition

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An interpretation of a performance

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Sham

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A fake

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Simulation

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Reproduction of a situation

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Adverse

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Opposing

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Averse

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Feeling dislike

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Ingenious

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Very clever

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Ingenuous

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Openly straightforward

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Persecute

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To cruelly mistreat

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Prosecute

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To bring action against in court

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Quorum

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Number needed to vote

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Quota

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Amount assigned

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Respectfully

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Politely; with regard

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Respectively

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Referring to things in the order given

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Beseech

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To beg, plead, or implore

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Abdicate

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Give up high office

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Absolve

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Release from obligation

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Catharsis

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An emotional release

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Countermand

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To cancel

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Impunity

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Exemption from punishment

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Recant

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Take back

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Recoup

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Regain

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Renounce

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To formally give up

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Rescind

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Repeal

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Waive

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Give up voluntarily

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Arbitration

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Submitting a dispute to a judge

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Attaché

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Special staff in a diplomatic office

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Consul

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A diplomat who represents his or her government in a foreign country

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Covenant

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A legal contract

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Discretion

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Good judgement and self-restraint

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Entente

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Informal agreement among political powers

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Insular

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Isolated

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Machiavellian

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Cunning and deceitful

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Protocol

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Ceremonial conduct

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Status quo

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Existing state of affairs

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Culminate

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To reach completion

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Eclipse

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To exceed or surpass

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Epitome

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A representative example

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Impeccable

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Having no flaws

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Inimitable

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Matchless; unique

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Optimum

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Best

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Peerless

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Incomparable

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Quintessence

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The purest essence

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Sublime

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Impressive

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Zenith

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The peak

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Affront

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An insult

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Altercation

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A noisy quarrel

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Bellicose

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Eager to fight

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Breach

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A violation

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Contentious

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Likely to cause disagreement

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Decimate

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To destroy

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Dissension

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Disagreement

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Rancor

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Bitter resentment

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Retribution

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Something justly deserved

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Schism

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A split within a group

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Apocryphal

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Doubtful

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Bona fide

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Authentic

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Candor

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Frankness

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Cant

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Boring talk filled with platitudes

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Charlatan

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An imposter

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Feign

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To pretend

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Insidious

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Secretly harmful

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Rectitude

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Righteousness

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Veritable

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Real; actual

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Accrue

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To accumulate

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Arbiter

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The judge in a dispute

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Audit

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To examine finances

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Cartel

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Group of businesses formed to control pricing

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Collateral

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Something pledged as security for a loan

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Commodity

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A product

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Conglomerate

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A corporation made up of a number of companies

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Liquidate

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To settle a debt by selling something off

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Lucrative

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Profitable

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Security

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A stock or bond