Day 25-1

Fill in the blank to complete the following definition:

antecedent: something that ................ before or ................. comes before something else

Fill in the blank to complete the following definition:

ancestor: someone in the ................ past from whom a person is directly ...........................

Fill in the word that matches the following definition:

a sign, warning, or indication of something to come

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a person or thing that comes before something or someone else

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the person who had a job or office before the person who currently has it

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precedent: a ..................... event or instance that can act as an example or ..................... for a current event

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hindsight: .................. and awareness of something after it has ..................

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retrospect: the act of looking back on or ................. about past events, often with a critical or ............... eye

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brevity: ...................... of time or duration; the state of fully ................ ideas in few words

Choose the definition that matches the bold word in the following sentence:

The fleeting beauty of the sunset lasted only a few minutes.

• occurring at exactly the same time

• using as few words as possible

• passing in a short time

• following one after another in a series