Unit 1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
To become weaker; to decrease.
Abate
To admit the existence of.
To express recognition or thanks for.
Acknowledge
A person who acts or does business for another.
Something that brings about a result.
Agent
Showing no sign of weakening; showing no decrease.
Unabated
Commonly accepted or recognized.
Acknowledged
The right to give orders, make decisions, or take action.
Authority
A group of people who have the right to enforce laws.
Authorities
To ruin or destroy completely.
Devastate
Causing destruction.
Devastating
Great destruction.
Devastation
The rapid spreading of a disease to many people at one time.
Spreading rapidly as a disease over a wide area.
Epidemic
A number that is not exact; a careful guess.
To figure out roughly; to make an approximate calculation.
Estimate
To force out of property by taking legal action.
Evict
Not favoring one side more than another; fair.
Impartial
Hardworking; not lazy.
Industrious
To make very angry.
Infuriate
Having nothing to do with the subject.
Irrelevant
Exact; specific.
Precise
Exactness.
Precision
Something fake or false.
Not genuine; fake.
To pretend.
Sham
A long, slow, and difficult journey.
To travel slowly and with difficulty.
Trek
