Vocab 03 Definitions

Question 1

Anthology

Answer 1

A collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems

Question 2

Conjecture

Answer 2

• A conclusion based on guesswork or insufficient evidence

- to form an opinion while lacking sufficient evidence

Question 3

Disposition

Answer 3

• a person’s usual mood; temperate

- a regular tendency or inclination

Question 4

Encompass

Answer 4

• to enclose or encircle

- to include

Question 5

Extricate

Answer 5

To free from a difficult or tangled situation

Question 6

Generation

Answer 6

One step in the line of descent of a family;
All the people born and living about the same time;
The average spam of time between the birth of parents and their children

Question 7

Guile

Answer 7

Cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery

Question 8

Imperative

Answer 8

• urgent; pressing

- having the power or authority to command

Question 9

Instill

Answer 9

To introduce gradually in order to establish securely

Question 10

Modify

Answer 10

• to make less extreme or severe
• to make changes in
• in grammar, to limit or restrict in meaning

Question 11

Pivot

Answer 11

• A small bar or rod on which something else turns
• a person or thing on which others depend
• to turn on, or as if on

Question 12

Prevalent

Answer 12

Commonly occuring; widely excepted or practice

Question 13

Recur

Answer 13

• to come up again or to happen again

- to come to mind again

Question 14

Spontaneous

Answer 14

• voluntary and unplanned

- occurring or produced without human labor

Question 15

Anonymous

Answer 15

Of an unknown source or unrevealed name