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Case Vocab Unit 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accrue | to come as a natural increase or advantage |
| crescendo | a gradual increase in sound, often referring to music |
| excrescence | abnormal growth or outgrowth |
| beneficence | doing good or causing good to be done, kindly action |
| efficacious | effective as a means or remedy |
| facile | acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent |
| facsimile | an exact copy of a book, painting, or document |
| faction | a group or clique within a larger group, party, or government |
| faction | conflict within an organization or nation |
| mollify | to calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling |
| context | the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning |
| context | the circumstances surrounding an event or situation |
| pretext | a false reason put forward to conceal the true one |