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Business Vocab (22)
2012 Business Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Austere | Morally strict |
Candor | Quality of being frank |
Circumspect | Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences |
Contingency | Dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of condition |
Destitute | Lacking something needed or desirable |
Disenfranchise | To deprive of the right to vote or other right or citizenship |
Egregious | Extraordinary in some bad way |
Enigma | A puzzling or inexplicable ocurrence or situation |
Euphemism | The use of a inoffensive word or phrase |
Fallacious | Misleading |
Gauche | Awkward |
Heinous | Hateful |
Inculcate | To cause or influence someone to accept an idea or feeling |
Inept | Generally awkward, clumsy, or incompetent |
Ingratiate | To place oneself purposely in the favor of another |
Magnanimous | Generous in forgiving an insult or injury |
Obligatory | Mandatory |
Parity | Equality |
Pedagogy | Teaching |
Recapitulate | Summarize |
Superfluous | Excessive |
Undulate | To move with wavelike motion |
Vociferance | The quality of making a loud uproar |
Usury | An unlawfully high rate of interest |
Litigious | Argumentative |