ap lang vocab 25,26,27

accrue

to increase, grow, accumulate

audit

examine, verify, correct

cartel

a formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production

collateral

A security pledged for the repayment of a loan.

commodity

valuable product

conglomerate

a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

liquidate

to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate

lucrative

profitable

recompense

repay

security

the state of being free from danger or threat

abstruse

difficult to understand

acumen

keen insight; shrewdness

ascertain

find (something) out for certain; make sure of

cerebral

intellectual

faculty

A natural power or ability

relative

considered in relation or in proportion to something else.

ruminate

think deeply about something

surmise

suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it

tenet

belief, doctrine

theoretical

restricted to ideas; abstract or unproven

apocryphal

of doubtful authenticity

bonafide

in good faith; authentic; genuine; real

candor

honesty

cant

insincere talk; language of a particular group

charlatan

one who pretends to have knowledge in order to swindle others

chicanery

trickery; deception

feign

to pretend

insidious

proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects

rectitude

moral uprightness; righteousness

veritable

being truly or very much so