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Lesson 3 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | of an unknown source or unrevealed name |
| Anthology | a collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems |
| Extricate | to free from a difficult or tangled situation |
| Encompass | to enclose or encircle |
| Imperative | urgent; pressing; having the power or authority to command |
| Conjecture | a conclusion based on guesswork or insufficient evidence |
| Instill | to introduce gradually in order to establish securely |
| Prevalent | commonly occurring; widely accepted or practiced |
| Spontaneous | voluntary and unplanned; occurring or produced without human labor; the quality or condition of occurring in an unplanned way |
| Pivot | a small bar or rod on which something else turns; a person or thing on which other depend; to turn on; vitally important; significant |
| Generation | one step in the line of a descent of a family; all people born and living about the same time; the average span of time between the birth of parents and their children |
| Recur | to come up again or to happen again; to come to mind again; the act of recurring |
| Guile | cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery |
| Modify | to make less extreme or severe; to make changes in; in grammar, to limit or restrict in meaning |
| Disposition | a person’s usual mood; temperament |