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vocabulary lesson 11
english vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Beseech | to request earnestly; to implore or beg |
| cajole | to urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery, to wheedle |
| elicit | to bring out or call forth |
| enjoin | a. to direct or order with authority b. to prohibit or forbid |
| exigency | a. the state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action b. an urgent crisis or situation |
| imperious | arrogantly bossy; domineering, overbearing |
| injunction | a command, a directive, or an order |
| mendicant | dependent on begging for a living |
| query | a. a question; an inquiry b. to question, often with doubt |
| servile | Slavish; behaving like a servant; excessively submissive |