vocab lessons 11-12
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- abound
- to be great in number or amount
- beseech
- to request earnestly; to implore or beg
- amplitude
- greatness of size or range; magnitude
- Enjoin
- to direct or order with authority; to prohibit or forbid
- Exigency
- the state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action; an urgent crisis or situation
- brevity
- the quality of being short in duration; briefness. Brief or concise expression; terseness
- elicit
- to bring out or call forth
- injunction
- a command, a directive or an order
- prodigious
- impressively great in size, force, or extent. Extraordinary; marvelous
- imperious
- arrogantly bossy; domineering; overbearing
- infinitesimal
- too small to measure or calculate
- query
- a question; an inquiry; V) to question, often with doubt
- servile
- slavish; behaving like a servant; excessively submissive. Like that of a slave or servant
- augment
- to add to; to increase the size, extent, or quanitity of
- Quotidian
- Everyday; commonplace
- diminish
- to make or become smaller or less; to lesson the authority, reputation, or prestige of
- Cajole
- to urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing or flattery; to wheedle
- behemoth
- something enormous in size or power
- modicum
- a small or token amount
- mendicant
- dependent on begging for a livin; a begger