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Laville vocab 192921
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| panacea | a cure-all |
| pernicious | very harmful |
| salutary | helpful or healthful |
| toxic | poisonous |
| vitiate | to reduce in value,quality,or effect |
| adulterate | to make impure |
| bane | cause of harm or annoyance |
| boon | a benefit |
| inimical | unfriendly, hostile |
| malevolent | showing ill will |
| commodity | a product |
| conglomerate | a corporation made up of a number of companies |
| liquidate | to settle a debt by selling something off |
| lucrative | profitable |
| security | a stock or bond |
| accure | to accumulate |
| arbiter | the judge in a dispute |
| audit | to examine finances |
| cartel | group of businesses formed to control pricing |
| collateral | something pledged as security for a loan |
| chicanery | trickery |
| feign | to pretend |
| insidious | secretly harmful |
| rectitude | righteousness |
| veritable | real, actual |
| apocryphal | doubtful |
| bona fide | authentic |
| candor | frankness |
| cant | boring talk filled with platitudes |
| charlatan | an imposter |