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Secut-/ Sequ. To follow. 1. Consecutive. following in regular order; successive. After a string of seven consecutive victories, we suffered our first loss. 2. Consequence. that which follows logically; result. The student knew that detention was the consequence for being late to class.
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Secut-/ Sequ To follow
1. Consecutive following in regular order; successive After a string of seven consecutive victories, we suffered our first loss.
2. Consequence that which follows logically; result The student knew that detention was the consequence for being late to class.
3. Execute follow through to completion; carry out In order to execute the rescue mission, agents had to secure the perimeter of the kidnappers’ compound, so that they could successfully carry out their plan.
4. Inconsequential of no consequence; trivial; unimportant In the play Twelve Angry Men, a seemingly inconsequential detail, the fact that a witness wore glasses, ends up being rather significant in the jury’s ruling of “not guilty.”
5. Non sequitur statement that does not follow from previous statements When I asked what time we were leaving for the movie, my friend answered with the non sequitur, “I really need a haircut soon.”
6. Persecute oppress; harass; annoy For thousands of years, people have persecuted others because of their race or religion, taking away their freedoms and, in extreme cases, enslaving or killing them.
7. Prosecute follow to the end or until finished; sue Until the case is successfully prosecuted and those who are guilty of the murder are brought to justice, the detective has vowed to never give up his search for the killers.
8. Sequel something that follows; continuation Based on the success of her first Harry Potter book, J.K. Rowling wrote several sequels that follow Harry and his friends through their years at Hogwarts.
9. Sequence the following of one thing after another; succession The sequence of classes you take is determined by the county; they decide the order in which students take their different courses in a particular subject.
10. Sequacious disposed to follow another or others, as a leader; slavishly unthinking and uncritical; persisting in a continuous intellectual or stylistic direction Rather than desiring a sequaciuos vice president who would always agree with her and never offer a word of criticism, the CEO was looking for an independent thinker, someone who was not afraid to state an unpopular opinion.
