VCR E - L8
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- ACER
- (L) sharp
- ACERBO
- (L) to make sour
- ACERBUS
- (L) bitter, sour, harsh
- acerbic
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adj. 1. sour or bitter in taste
2. harsh or sharp in speech, manner, or temper - acrid
- adj. bitterly pungent or harsh in taste or smell; sharply stinging
- exacerbate
- v. to increase the severity of something; to intensify irratation or violence
- acrimony
- n. bitter, sharp animosity, especially in behavior or speech
- ACUO
- (L) to sharpen
- ACUS
- (L) needle
- acumen
- n. keenness of insight and discernment; sagacity
- acute
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adj. 1. very discerning; quickly alert to impressions
2. severe; intense - peremptory
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adj. 1. urgently commanding; officious or arrogantly dictatorial
2. not allowing contradiction or further agreement - preempt
- v. to take precedence over someone or something already arranged in a place; to seize priority
- redemption
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n. 1. deliverance from sin; atonemet for guilt
2. retrieval; reclamation; reformation - KRATOS
- (G) stregnth, power
- technocracy
- n. government or social systems that put technological theories into practice
- plutocrat
- n. a member of a governing wealthy class or a person whose wealth grants political influeence
- PECUNIA
- (L) money, wealth
- pecuniary
- adj. relating to money or necessary payment of it
- impecunious
- adj. lacking money; penniless
- PORTO
- (L) to carry
- comportment
- n. behavior; demeanor; mode of bearing or movement
- purport
- v. to claim; to profess (without giving proof); to appear to be