Quizlet Word Wealth 12 (2-2)

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  1. accelerate: to speed up, increase in speed
  2. adulatiion: an exaggerated view of a person's worth
  3. bruit: to spread a report or rumor quietly but insistently
  4. caricature: exaggeration of certain typical details of a face, a policy, or a work of art
  5. celerity: speed or swiftness in a qualitative or literary sense
  6. compensate: to make up for, pay, remunerate
  7. disparity: the state of being unequal
  8. disseminate: to distrubute information or knowledge widely
  9. edict: an order
  10. effect: to bring out an effect or conclusion
  11. encyclical: a message from the Pope
  12. evolve: to "roll" it out very gradually, by slow and steady improvement
  13. exaggerate: to overstate, magnify, inflate
  14. execute: to act or take action on a matter so as to carry it out to completion
  15. executive: a person appointed to administer laws, business, or other affairs
  16. expedite: the spedding up of a process or action
  17. grandioseness: an exaggeration sense of the bigness, importance, or magnitude of a plan, a dream, or an undertaking
  18. humiliate: to lower the self-respect of, mortify
  19. humility: self-abasement or down-to-earth behavior
  20. hyperbole: a poetic exaggeration
  21. impale: to pierce, thrust through
  22. indemnify: pay or agree to pay for losses he or she may suffer on your account
  23. indemnity: the sum paid or promised
  24. jeopardize: to endanger
  25. maneuver: to use indirect or even underhanded means to accomplish something
  26. manifesto: a rather formal and somewhat pretentious pronouncement for all to see
  27. metaphor: an implied comparison
  28. moron: a person of low intelligence, fool
  29. nonentity: a person or thing of no importance
  30. obstancy and pertinacity: stubborn perserverance
  31. parity: equality, equivalence
  32. perpetrate: to perform, carry out
  33. perseverance: patience plus tenacity
  34. persistence: implies repition or determined continuance
  35. proclaim: an oral announcement with authority and often with joy
  36. promulgate: to make known, spread widely
  37. pronouncement: a statement from authority, usually after careful consideration
  38. propagate: to spread or promote truth, ideas and beliefs
  39. prosecute: to follow up on something that needs to be done
  40. recompense: provide compensation in the form of good or evil
  41. reimburse: pay back money that some one has spent for you
  42. reparation: pay in some way for damage one has done or caused someone else
  43. resuscitate: to revive, bring back to life
  44. satellite: a small body revolving around a larger one; a person, group, or nation dependent on a larger one
  45. scroll: an ancient rolled manuscript
  46. simile: an expressed comparison
  47. simulate: to feign, pretend, imitate
  48. sovereign: the supreme ruler, monarch
  49. stratum: a layer or level
  50. tenacity: unyeilding firmness
  51. transact: to carry out in a simple, direct manner
  52. velocity: speed or rate of motion in a quantitative sense