| Term | Definition |
|---|
| accelerate | tr. and intr. v. To cause faster movement; to go faster |
| celerity | n. Swiftness; quickness; speed |
| concur | intr. v. To agree; to cooperate |
| concur | intr. v. To coincide; to happen simultaneously |
| discourse | n. Conversation |
| discourse | n. A formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing |
| discourse | intr. v. to talk; to discuss formally in speech or writing |
| incur | tr. v. To meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself |
| precursor | n. Forerunner |
| succor | n. Help in time of distress |
| succor | tr. v. To render help to |
| conglomeration | n. A collection of unrelated things |
| abject | adj. Humiliating and miserable |
| abject | adj. Contempitble |
| conjecture | n. An opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess |
| conjecture | tr. and intr. v. To conclude from insufficient evidence |
| interjection | n. A word or phrase sometimes inserted between otehr words, often expressing emotion; a word not linked grammatically to other words in a sentence |
| assail | tr. v. To attack violently; to assault. |
| assail | tr. v. To attack with words; to ridicule or criticize harshly |
| desultory | adj. Jumping from one thing to another; rambling |
| desultory | adj. Haphazard or random |
| exult | intr. v. To rejoice greatly; to be triumphant |
| resilient | adj. Capable of returning to the original shape after being bent or stretched |
| resilient | adj. Buoyant; recovering quickly from illness, change, or misfortune |
| salient | adj. Conspicuous; striking |
| salient | adj. Projecting up or out |
| convalesce | intr. v. To recover health after illness |
| avail | tr. v. To use to one's own advantage (to ____ oneself of) |
| prevalent | adj. Widely occurring or in general use |
| valor | n. Heroic courage; bravery |
| evolve | intr. v. To develop gradually |
| evolve | intr. v. To change from a simpler to a more complex form of animal or plant life |
| voluble | adj. Speaking in a steady, easy flow of words, talkative; glib |
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