| assumption |
something that is supposed or believed without questioning. For example, if you ask someone whether she is allowed to watch TV during dinner, you have made an assumption that there is a TV in her house. Assumptions are ideas people have that are not based on proven facts. An assumption can be correct or incorrect. |
| causal |
being or involving a cause. |
| chronology |
the order of events in time. |
| dictate |
to state or order with authority. |
| disposition |
a person's usual mood or attitude. |
| dubious |
having or showing doubt; skeptical. |
| intertwine |
to twist together, one about the other; interlace or interlock. |
| pact |
an agreement or a sworn promise. |
| plead |
to ask for something in a sincere or serious way. |
| simulate |
to imitate or reproduce the appearance, sound, or other external characteristics or qualities of. |
| successive |
following one after another. |
| toxic |
acting as or like a poison; injurious or deadly. |
| trainee |
one who is being taught to do a particular job in a company or trade; apprentice. |
| vicinity |
an area near or around a place; somewhere nearby. |
| vortex |
a whirling mass of fluid, air, or the like, such as a whirlpool, that generates a vacuum in the center toward which things are drawn. |