Unit 6: Novel Study: Hidden Figures, Prologue–Chapter 11

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  1. aeronautics
    the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
  2. segregation
    a social system that provides different facilities for minority groups
  3. efficient
    being effective without wasting time, effort, or expense
  4. refine
    improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
  5. assess
    estimate the nature, quality, ability or significance of
  6. analytical
    using or skilled in using reasoning
  7. assume
    take to be the case or to be true
  8. emerge
    become known or apparent
  9. sympathetic
    expressing compassion or friendly fellow feelings
  10. abiding
    unceasing
  11. desolation
    a bleak atmosphere
  12. complex
    a whole structure made up of interconnected structures
  13. predominantly
    much greater in number or influence
  14. perception
    a way of conceiving something
  15. makeshift
    something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
  16. modify
    cause to change; make different
  17. outcome
    something that results
  18. convert
    change the nature, purpose, or function of something
  19. apparent
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  20. limbo
    a period of prolonged uncertainty
  21. voluntarily
    out of your own free will
  22. anonymous
    having no known name or identity or known source
  23. reinforce
    strengthen and support
  24. conduct
    direct the course of; manage or control
  25. confront
    oppose, as in hostility or a competition
  26. blatant
    without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
  27. asset
    a useful or valuable quality
  28. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
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