VOCABULARY Content

Skill: an ability that has been acquired by training.

Instance: an occurrence of something.

Convention: a large formal assembly.

Temper: a characteristic state of feeling.

Appoint: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.

Commission: a special group delegated to consider some matter.

Constitute: to compose or represent.

Inspire: serve as the inciting cause of.

Fancy: imagine; conceive of; see in one mind.

Catch word: a clue, a slogan.

Court: an assembly to conduct judicial business.

Concept: an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances.

Scarce: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand

Undertake: enter upon an activity or enterprise.

Insist: be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge.

Territory: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a state.

Novel: an extended fictional work in prose.

Vain: unproductive of success.

Furnish: provide with objects or articles that make a room usable.

Assert: declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.