Vocab 13 And 14 Definitions Flashcards
1
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Accelerate
A
To cause a faster movement; to go faster
2
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Celerity
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Swiftness; quickness; speed
3
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Concur
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- to agree; to corporate
- to coincide; to happen simultaneously
4
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Conglomeration
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A collection of unrelated things
5
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Conjecture
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- an opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess
- to conclude from insufficient evidence
6
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Discourse
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- conversation
- a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing
- to talk; to discuss formally in speech or writing
7
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Incur
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To meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself
8
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Interjection
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A word or phrase sometimes interested between other words, often expressing emotion; a word not linked grammatically to other words in a sentence
9
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Precursor
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Forerunner
10
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Succor
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- help in time of distress
- to render help to
11
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Abject
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- humiliating and miserable
- contemptible
12
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Assail
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- to attack violently; to assault
- to attack with words; to ridicule or criticize harshly
13
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Avail
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To use to one’s own advantage
14
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Convalesce
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To recover health after illness
15
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Desultory
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- jumping from one thing to another; rambling
- haphazard or random
