a chronicle of time keeping

Question 1

chronicle =

Answer 1

a written record, history, story of

historical events.

Question 2

timekeeping =

Answer 2

the activity of recording the

time something takes

Question 3

orbit =

Answer 3

circle, revolve around, travel around,

go around,

Question 4

regulate=

Answer 4

control, adjust, standardize.

Question 5

advent

Answer 5

= coming, start, arrival, the time when

something first begins to be widely used.

Question 6

co-ordinate =

Answer 6

organize, manage, direct, to

make various, separate things work together.

Question 7

communal =

Answer 7

shared, common, public,
relating or belonging to all the people living in
a particular.

Question 8

accompany=

Answer 8

go together with, come with, be

associated with, happen with, appear with.

Question 9

artificial=

Answer 9

man-made, synthetic, non-natural.

Question 10

equator =

Answer 10

an imaginary line drawn around

the middle of the Earth.

Question 11

conspicuous

Answer 11

= obvious, clear, noticeable

Question 12

clime

Answer 12

= zone, region, a place that has a

particular type of climate.

Question 13

wax and wane

Answer 13

= to increase and decrease
over time.
.

Question 14

latitude

Answer 14

= the distance north or south of the

equator, measured in degrees.

Question 15

formulate =

Answer 15

invent, create, make, develop.

Question 16

municipal

Answer 16

= civic, public, community,
#private.

Question 17

adopt

Answer 17

= accept, approve, implement, apply,
#reject

Question 18

disseminate

Answer 18

= spread, publish, distribute.

Question 19

sundial =

Answer 19

an object used in the past for

telling the time.

Question 20

cosmic

Answer 20

= relating to space or the universe.

Question 21

interval

Answer 21

= intermission, interlude, break.

Question 22

duration

Answer 22

past that divided the daylight into an equal

number of hours,

Question 23

equinox

Answer 23

solstice, one of the two times in a

year when night and day are of equal length

Question 24

counterpart

Answer 24

= equal, colleague, equivalent.

Question 25

drip

Answer 25

= drop, come out, leak, #stream.

Question 26

denote

Answer 26

= indicate, represent, refer to,
#connote

Question 27

inscribed

Answer 27

= engrave, carve, to carefully cut,

print or write on smt

Question 28

dip =

Answer 28

dunk, immerse, to put something into a
liquid for a very short time and take it out
again.

Question 29

arise

Answer 29

= rise, ascend, appear, # retire

Question 30

evolve

Answer 30

= change, grow, advance, to develop
and change gradually over a long period of
time.

Question 31

commence

Answer 31

= start, begin, originate.

Question 32

supersede

Answer 32

= replace, supplant, displace.

Question 33

scheme=

Answer 33

plan, idea, method.

Question 34

the anchor escapement =

Answer 34

a type of

escapement used in pendulum clocks

Question 35

dependency

Answer 35

= reliance, enslavement,

craving.

Question 36

integral

Answer 36

= connected, central, internal,

forming a necessary part of something.

Question 37

navigation

Answer 37

= routing, direction-finding
the science or job of planning which way you
need to go when you are travelling from one
place to another

Question 38

accurate=

Answer 38

correct, precise, exact.

Question 39

calibrate

Answer 39

= standardize, adjust, regulate.

Question 40

descend=

Answer 40

downward, fall, drop, go down.

Question 41

escapement

Answer 41

a piece of machinery in a

clock from the spring or weight to a wheel.

Question 42

pendulum =

Answer 42

a long metal stick with weight at
the bottom that swings regularly from side to
side to control the working of a clock.

Question 43

escape wheel

Answer 43

= a toothed wheel in the

escapement of a watch or clock.

Question 44

beam down

Answer 44

= to transport somebody to or
from a spaceship using special electronic
equipment.

Question 45

precise

Answer 45

= exact, correct, accurate.