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20 Cards in this Set
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Beseech |
To request earnestly; to implore or beg |
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Cajole |
To urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery; to Wheedle |
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Elicit |
To bring out or call forth |
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Enjoin |
- To direct or order with authority - To prohibit or forbid |
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Exigency |
- The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action - and urgent crisis or situation |
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Imperious |
Arrogantly bossy; domineering; overbearing |
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Injunction |
A command, a directive, or an order |
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Mendicant |
- depended on begging for a living - A beggar |
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Query |
- A question, an inquiry - to question, often with doubt |
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Servile |
- slavish; behaving like a servant, excessively submissive - like that of a slave or servant |
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Abound |
To be great in number or amount |
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Amplitude |
Greatness of size or range; magnitude |
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Augment |
To add to; to increase the size, extent, or quantity of |
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Behemoth |
Something enormous in size or power |
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Brevitt |
- the quality of being short in duration; brief - brief or concise expression; terseness |
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Diminish |
- to make or become smaller or less - to lessen the authority, reputation, or prestige of |
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Infinitesimal |
Too small to measure or calculate |
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Modicum |
A small or token amount |
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Prodigious |
- impressively great in size, force, or extent - extraordinary; marvelous |
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Quotidian |
everyday; commonplace |
