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ENG Words #14
English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Participation with another in an act that is or seems to be deceitful | Complicity |
| 1. Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing 2. Being physically or numerically double or two-fold; doubleness | Duplicity |
| To make clear; to explain thoroughly, often in a literary context | Explicate |
| definite; stated in detail, leaving nothing to be guessed at; outspoken | Explicit |
| 1. A notable or heroic deed 2. To make use of selfishly or unethically 3. To Publicize | Exploit |
| 1. To indicate indirectly; to hint 2. To require as a necessary condition | Imply |
| 1. A tactic intended to frustrate, embarrass, or gain an advantage over an opponent | Ploy |
| 1. To use a tool or weapon vigorously; to work at a trade 2. To offer something persistently 3. The thickness of cloth, yarn, or rope 4. Wood layered with crosswise grain | Ply |
| To ask humbly or earnestly for, as in praying; to beseech | Supplicate |
| 1. To arrest 2. To grasp mentally; to understand 3. To anticipate with anxiety | Apprehend |
| To consist of; to contain | Comprise |
| A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for business ventures | Entrepreneur |
| 1. Strong enough to resist attack of capture, as a fortress 2. Not to be outweighed or overcome in argument | Impregnable |
| To reprimand, reprove, or express disapproval | Reprehend |
| An action or act of retaliation against someone for injuries received | Reprisal |