Improving Vocabulary Skills - Chapters 8 and 9

Enigma

n A mystery or a puzzle

Dispatch

v To send to a specific place

Nocturnal

a Of, about, or happening in the night; active at night

Attest

v To make a statement about something on a basis of personal experience; bear witness; testify

Orient

v To determine one’s location or direction; to locate in relation to a direction (east, west etc.)

Discern

v To recognize; detect

Enhance

v To improve; add strength, beauty, or value of something

Mobile

a Moving or able to move from place to place

Attribute

n A quality or feature of a person or thing

Examplify

v To be an example of; represent; be typical of

Constitute

v to make up; be the parts of

Default

v to fail to do something required

Predominant

a most common or most noticeable

Prerequisite

n something required beforehand

Confiscate

v to seize with authority; legally take possession of

Decipher

v to interpret or read (something confusing or hard to make out)

Nominal

a slight; very small compared with what might be expected

Concurrent

a happening or existing at the same time; simultaneous

Recession

n a temporary decline in buissness

Hypothetical

a supposed for the sake of argument ot examination; imaginary; theoretical