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Details Title: Wordly Wise Lesson 3 Description: Vocabulary Words Total Flash Cards: 15 Created: 09/27/2006 16:25:03	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term disposition Definition 1. a person's usually modds; temperament 2. a regular tendency or inclination Term anonymous Definition of an unknown source or unrevealed name Term anthology Definition a collection of writings, such as songs, stories, or poems Term conjecture Definition a conclusion based on guesswork or insufficent evidence Term encompass Definition 1. to enclose or encircle 2. to include Term extricate Definition to free from a difficult or tangled situation Term generation Definition 1. one step in line of descent of a family 2. all the people born and living about the same time 3. the average span of time between the birth of parents and their children Term guile Definition cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery Term imperative Definition 1. urgent; pressing 2. having the power or authority to command Term instill or instil Definition to introduce gradually in order to establish securely Term modify Definition 1. to make less extreme or severe 2. to make changes in 3. in grammar to limit or restrict in meaning Term pivot Definition 1. a small bar or rod on which something else turns 2. a person or thing on which others depend pivotal vitally important; significant Term prevalent Definition commonly occuring; widley accepted or practiced Term recur Definition 1. to come up again or happen again 2. to come to mind again recurrence the act of recurring Term spontaneous Definition 1. voluntary or unplanned 2. occurring or produced without human labor spontaneity the quality or condition of occurring in an unplanned way