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Wordly Wise, Lesson 3 (8th)

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  • anonymous
    of an unknown source or unrevealed name
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  • anthology
    a collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems
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  • conjecture
    a conclusion based on guesswork or insufficient evidence; to form an opinion while lacking sufficient evidence
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  • disposition
    a person's usual mood; temperament; a regular tendency or inclination
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  • encompass
    to enclose or encircle; to include
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  • extricate
    to free from a difficult or tangled situation
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  • generation
    one step in the line of a descent of a family; all the people born and living about the same time; the average span of time between the birth of paren...
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  • guile
    cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery
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  • imperative
    urgent; pressing; having the power or authority to command
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  • instill
    to introduce gradually in order to establish securely
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  • modify
    to make less extreme or severe; to make changes in; in grammar, to limit or restrict in meaning
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  • pivot
    a small bar or rod on which something else turns; a person or thing on which others depend; vitally important; significant
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  • prevalent
    commonly occurring; widely accepted or practiced
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  • recur
    to come up again or to happen again; to come to mind again
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  • spontaneous
    voluntary and unplanned; occurring or produced without human labor; the quality or condition of occurring in an unplanned way
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