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14 Cards in this Set
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Anonymous
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adj. of an unknown source or revealed name.
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Anthology
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n. a collection of various writings;such as songs, stories or poems
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Conjecture
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n. a conclusion based on a guesswork or insufficient evidence
v. to form an opinion while lacking sufficient evidence |
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Disposition
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n. a persons usual mood;temperament
2. a regular tendency or inclination |
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Encompass
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v. to enclose or encircle
2. to include |
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Extricate
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to free from a difficult or tangled situation
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Generation
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One step in the line of a descent of a family
all the people born and living about the same time |
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Guile
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n. cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery
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Imperative
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urgent;pressing
having the power to authority to command |
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Instill or instil
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v. To introduce gradually in order to establish securely
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Modify
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to make less extreme or severe
to make changes in in grammar, to limit or restrict in meaning |
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Pivot
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a small bar or rod on which something turns
a person or thing on which depends to turn on or as if pivot vitally important;significant |
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Prevalent
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commonly occurring;widely accepted or practiced
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Recur
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to come up again or to happen again
to come to mind again the act of recurring |
