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lesson 10-2010
Vocab definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to grow | cresco, crescere, crevi, cretum |
| To come as a natural increase or advantage | accrue |
| a gradual increase in sound often referring to music | crescendo |
| abnormal growth or outgrowth | excrescence |
| to make | facio, facere, feci, factum |
| doing good or causing good to be done, kindly action | beneficence |
| effective as a means or remedy | efficacious |
| acting, working or proceeding with ease | facile |
| an exact copy of a book, painting or document | facsimile |
| a group or clique within a larger group, government, or party | faction |
| to calm, to make gentler or softer in feeling | mollify |
| to weave | texo, texere, texui, textum |
| the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning | context |
| the circumstances surrounding an event or situation | context |
| a false reason put forward to conceal the true one | pretext |