vocab 23#

Question 1

reception

Answer 1

(n) the act of receiving; a social gather where guests are formally received

Question 2

intercept

Answer 2

(v) to stop, to seize, or to interrupt someone or something before arrival

Question 3

perceptible

Answer 3

(adj) noticeable or able to be felt by the senses

Question 4

. susceptible

Answer 4

(adj) open to some influence; responsive

Question 5

definitive

Answer 5

(adj) authoritative and final; perfect or precise

Question 6

. finite

Answer 6

(adj) having definite limits

Question 7

. infinitesimal

Answer 7

(adj) extremely or immeasurably small

Question 8

interject

Answer 8

(v) to interrupt a conversation with a comment or remark

Question 9

conjecture

Answer 9

(v) to guess

Question 10

trajectory

Answer 10

(n) the curved path that an object makes in space, or that a thrown object follows as it rises and falls to earth

Question 11

cept

Answer 11

comes from the Latin word meaning “take, seize” Capture, which is what a captor has done to a captive, has the same meaning.

Question 12

FIN

Answer 12

comes from the Latin word for “end” or “boundary.”

Question 13

JECT

Answer 13

comes from jacere, the Latin verb meaning “throw” or “hurl.” To reject something is to throw it back.