Lesson 10 Flashcards

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Crescendo

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Gradual increase in sound, often in music

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Excrescence

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Abnormal growth or outgrowth

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Accrue

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To come as a natural increase or advantage

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Facio facere feci factum

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To make

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Beneficence

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Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action

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Efficacious

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Effective as a means or remedy

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Facile

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Acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent

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Facsimile

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An excavation copy of a book, painting, document ect.

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Faction

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A group or clique within a larger group, party, or government

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Mollify

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To calm; to make gentler or differing feeling

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Cresco crescere crevi cretum

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To grow, to increase

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Texo texere texui textum

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To weave

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13
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Context

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The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning

Circumstances surrounding an event or situation

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Pretext

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A false reason put forward to conceal one true one

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