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Business Vocab (22)
2012 Business Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Austere | Morally strict |
| Candor | Quality of being frank |
| Circumspect | Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences |
| Contingency | Dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of condition |
| Destitute | Lacking something needed or desirable |
| Disenfranchise | To deprive of the right to vote or other right or citizenship |
| Egregious | Extraordinary in some bad way |
| Enigma | A puzzling or inexplicable ocurrence or situation |
| Euphemism | The use of a inoffensive word or phrase |
| Fallacious | Misleading |
| Gauche | Awkward |
| Heinous | Hateful |
| Inculcate | To cause or influence someone to accept an idea or feeling |
| Inept | Generally awkward, clumsy, or incompetent |
| Ingratiate | To place oneself purposely in the favor of another |
| Magnanimous | Generous in forgiving an insult or injury |
| Obligatory | Mandatory |
| Parity | Equality |
| Pedagogy | Teaching |
| Recapitulate | Summarize |
| Superfluous | Excessive |
| Undulate | To move with wavelike motion |
| Vociferance | The quality of making a loud uproar |
| Usury | An unlawfully high rate of interest |
| Litigious | Argumentative |