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

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Creator towardspeace
Created November 3, 2007
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