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vocabulary lesson 11
english vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Beseech | to request earnestly; to implore or beg |
cajole | to urge with gentle, repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery, to wheedle |
elicit | to bring out or call forth |
enjoin | a. to direct or order with authority b. to prohibit or forbid |
exigency | a. the state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action b. an urgent crisis or situation |
imperious | arrogantly bossy; domineering, overbearing |
injunction | a command, a directive, or an order |
mendicant | dependent on begging for a living |
query | a. a question; an inquiry b. to question, often with doubt |
servile | Slavish; behaving like a servant; excessively submissive |