Vocabulary

C-Suite Vocabulary flashcards

14 decks · 660 cards · built into Willys · free samples below

Written against: The precise words of senior leadership: board, strategy and negotiation; extends the Willys app's Executive Register list; our own word selection. Updated 2026-10-10.

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 8 decks · 460 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Set 1: Meanings The first 100 of the 300 C-Suite words, from considered and husband to albeit and lucid: pronunciation, the sense leaders use and three example sentences set at work, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 1: In Context Fill the blank: 34 of the Set 1 words, each in a fresh sentence from boardrooms, offsites and negotiations whose clues point to one word (where a second also fits, the back says so), with the deciding clue and the tempting rival explained. 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 2: Meanings The next 100 of the 300 C-Suite words, from seminal and salient to tacit and canny: pronunciation, the sense leaders use and three example sentences set at work, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 2: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 2 words, each in a fresh sentence from boardrooms, offsites and negotiations whose clues point to one word (where a second also fits, the back says so), with the deciding clue and, on most cards, the tempting rival explained. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 3: Meanings The last 100 of the 300 C-Suite words, from culpable and banal to elide and adduce: pronunciation, a definition in the sense leaders use, and three example sentences from boardrooms, memos and negotiations, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 3: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 3 words, each in a fresh sentence from boardrooms, offsites and negotiations whose clues point to one word (where a second also fits, the back says so), with the deciding clue and the tempting rival explained. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Precision Pairs Twenty-five pairs that trip up senior speakers, from discrete and discreet to refute and rebut: choose the word one line from working life calls for, then see why the other fails (where it also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 25 cards in the app Say It Better Thirty-five plain sentences from meetings and memos, each sharpened with one C-Suite word: the word, the tighter sentence, and why it says more than the plain version. 10 free · 35 cards in the app

Drills · 3 decks · 100 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

Set 1: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 33 of the Set 1 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one example sentence set at work. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 2: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 34 of the Set 2 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one example sentence set at work. 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 3: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 33 of the Set 3 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one example sentence set at work. 10 free · 33 cards in the app

Practice · 3 decks · 100 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Set 1: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words, set in senior working life: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 2: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in senior working life: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 3: Practice Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words, set in senior working life: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 34 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

Judgment & Prudence 63
Argument & Evidence 68
Precision & Nuance 66
Certainty & Doubt 64
Scale & Consequence 66
Change & Trajectory 70
Concession & Diplomacy 65
Vagueness & Weak Thinking 68
Force & Obligation 65
Scope & Restraint 65

A study plan

24 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
12 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
8 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

How to get these decks

Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

Every deck is built into Willys

All 14 C-Suite Vocabulary decks (660 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.

Get the app

In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

Senses, parts of speech and pronunciations checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Includes and extends the Executive Register word list first published with the Willys app; word selection is our own.
Senses, parts of speech and pronunciations checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary, Dictionary.com and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Senses and parts of speech checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.

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