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Question 1

circumnavigate

Answer 1

V: sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world).
2. go around or avoid (an obstacle).

“he undertook to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less”
2. “he helped her to circumnavigate a frozen puddle”

Question 2

circumspect

Answer 2

A: prudent, discreet; wary and unwilling to take risks.

“the officials were very circumspect in their statements”

Question 3

circumscribe

Answer 3

V confine; restrict (something) within limits.
2. draw (a figure) around another, touching it at points but not cutting it.

“their movements were strictly monitored and circumscribed”
2. “if a hexagon is circumscribed about a circle the lines joining opposite vertices meet in one point”

Question 4

coauthor

Answer 4

N/V: a joint author.

“an American teacher who later became his wife and coauthor”

Question 5

composition

Answer 5

N: configuration; the nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
2. a work of music, literature, or art.

“the social composition of villages”
2. “Chopin’s most romantic compositions”

Question 6

commerce

Answer 6

N: the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.

“the possible increase of commerce by a great railroad”

Question 7

contravene

Answer 7

V: break; violate the prohibition or order of (a law, treaty, or code of conduct).

“this would contravene the rule against hearsay”

Question 8

disparity

Answer 8

N: a great difference; divergence

“economic disparities between different regions of the country”

Question 9

interjection

Answer 9

N: an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption.

“barracking and interjections from the protesters”

Question 10

intramural

Answer 10

A: situated or done within the walls of a building.

“both intramural and churchyard graves”

Question 11

panacea

Answer 11

N: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

“the panacea for all corporate ills”