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Vocab lesson10.
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Root:Cresco, Crescere, crevi, cretum "to grow" "to increase" accrue | to come as a natural increase or advantage |
| crescendo | a gradual increase in sound often referring to music |
| excrescene | abnormal growth or outgrowth |
| Root: facio, facere, feci factum "to make" 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. (sometimes, superficial, when something is to easily done.) |
| facsimile | An exact copy of a book, painting, document etc. |
| faction | a group or clique within a larger group, party, or government. |
| mollify | To calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling. |
| Root: texo, texere, texui, textum "to weave" context | the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning. |
| pretext | A false reason put forward to conceal the true one. |