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vocabulary period 4
Stengel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a. The condition of being without a stop or interruption b. An uninterrupted succession or flow. | Continuity |
| a. To approach the same point from different directions; meet b. To move toward a common conclusion or result. | Converge |
| a. The basic or essential feature of something b. A baffleing or puzzling point that is difficult to explain | Crux |
| a. To begin; originate; cause to begin b. To admit into membership A beginner; novice | Initiate |
| a. Central or crucial to something; very important b. Pertaining to a pivot, the shaft about which a related part roatates or swings | Pivotal |
| a. something that follows; continuation b. A result or consequence c. a literary work that, while complete in itself, continues an already existing narrative | Sequel |
| One subject to the authority of another. Of a lower class or rank; inferior. To put in a lower class or rank; make inferior | Subordinate |
| Only superficially relevent or related | Tangential |
| To bring to an end; conclude; to come to an end | Terminate |
| a. Last; coming at the end b. farthest; extreme c. greatest possible | Ultimate |
| Involvement as an accomplice in a crime or wrongdoing | Complicity |
| a. to station(persons or forces) systematically over an area b. to spread out(troops) to form an extended front | Deploy |
| to explain; make meaning clear | Explicate |
| a. to involve or connect incriminatingly b. to involve or suggest by logical necessity | Implicate |
| a. implied or understood although not expressed b. contained in the nature of something, although not readily apparent c. having no doubts; unquestioning | Implicit |
| incapable of being explained or inerpreted | Inexplicable |
| a condition or situation of difficulty or adversity | Plight |
| a. a copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the origina artist b. a copy or reproduction | Replica |
| to duplicate, copy, or repeat | Replicate |
| a. readily bent; pliant b. moving and bending with agility; limber c. yielding or changing readily; compliant or adaptable | Supple |