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Vocabulary III
Lesson 11&12
Question | Answer |
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beseech | to request earnestly; to implore or beg |
cajole | to urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery; to wheedle |
elicit | to bring out or call forth |
enjoin | to direct or order with authority; to prohibit or forbid |
exigency | the state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action; an urgent crisis or situation |
imperious | arrogantly bossy; domineering; overbearing |
injunction | a command, a directive, or an order |
mendicant | dependent on begging for a living; a beggar |
query | a question; an inquiry; to question, often with doubt |
servile | slavish; behaving like servant; excessively submissive; like that of a slave or servant |
abound | to be great in number or amount |
amplitude | greatness of size or range; magnitude |
augment | to add; to increase the size, extent, or quantity of |
behemoth | something enormous in size or power |
brevity | the quality of being short in duration; briefness; brief or concise expression; terseness |
diminish | to make or become smaller or less; to lessen the authority, reputation, or prestige of |
infinitesimal | too small to measure or calculate |
modicum | a small or token amount |
prodigious | impressively great in size, force, or extent; extraordinary; marvelous |
quotidian | everyday; commonplace |