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6th Voc Creativity
Unit 6 Lesson 10 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accrue | to come as a natural increase or advantage |
| accrual (noun) | accumulation: the act of accumulating |
| crescendo | a gradual increase in sound, often referring to music |
| excrescence | abnormal growth or outgrowth |
| excrescent | Growing out abnormally, excessively, or superfluously |
| beneficence | doing good or causing goo to be done; kindly acting |
| efficacious | effective as a means or remedy |
| efficaciously | Producing or capable of producing a desired effect |
| facile | acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent |
| facilitate | To make easy or easier |
| facility | Ease in moving, acting, or doing; aptitude |
| facsimile | an exact copy of a book, painting, document |
| faction (noun 1) | a group or clique within a larger group, party, or government |
| faction (noun 2) | conflict within an organization or nation. |
| mollify | to calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling |
| context (noun 1) | to parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning. |
| context (noun 2) | the circumstances surrounding an event or situation. |
| pretext | a false reason put forward to conceal the true one. |