Chapter 11-13 Flashcards

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Acuity

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Sharpness of vision or perception

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Consummate

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Superior or perfect in every respect

To bring to completion or fulfillment

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Cunning

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Marked by or tending to use sly deception

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Deft

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Quick and skillful

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Endowment

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A natural gift

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Facile

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Easy

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Inept

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Lacking skill or judgement

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Prescient

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Having foresight

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Proficient

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Able to do something very well

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Prowess

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Superior strength

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Beseech

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To request earnestly; to implore or beg

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Cajole

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To urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery.

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Elicit

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To bring out or call forth

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Exigency

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The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action

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Imperious

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Arrogantly bossy; overbearing

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Injunction

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A command, a directive, or an order

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Mendicant

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Dependent on begging for a living

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Query

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A question; and inquiry

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Servile

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Slavish; behaving like a servant; excessively submissive

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Abound

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To be great in number or amount

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Amplitude

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Greatness of size or range

22
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Augment

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To add to

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Behemoth

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Something enormous in size or power

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Brevity

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The quality of being short in duration; briefness

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Diminish

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To make or become smaller or less

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Infinitesimal

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Too small to measure or calculate

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Modicum

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A small token or amount

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Prodigious

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Impressively great in size, force, or extent

Extraordinary; marvelous

(Think prodigy)

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Quotidian

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Everyday; commonplace