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Grammar Vocab L10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to come as a natural increase or advantage | accrue |
| a gradual increase in sound, often referring to music | crescendo |
| abnormal growth or outgrowth | excrescence |
| doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action | beneficence |
| effective as a means or remedy | efficacious |
| acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent | facile |
| an exact copy of a book, painting, document, etc. | facsimile |
| a group or clique within a larger group, party, or government | faction |
| conflict within an organization or nation | faction |
| the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning | context |
| the circumstances surrounding an event or situation | context |
| to calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling | mollify |
| a false reason put forward to conceal the true one | pretext |