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to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret. Grant Guttschow
 * __Construe__** (verb) - kon-stroo
 * Sentence**: In words or dreamlike images, in artistic or religious or even in cynical form, we must construe the events of life.
 * Memory Trick**: Construe sounds like construct. You are constructing the meaning out of a gesture or intention.

to contemplate or visualize
 * Envisage** (verb) - en-**viz**-ij

Sentence: Rachel envisioned a magical prom where everything was perfect. Memory Trick: Envisage sounds like envision. Envisioning something means you are dreaming of something or imagining something, and that is basically what envisaging something is.

Liz Phipps General Vocabulary

a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination) : a gossipmonger
 * Mongering:** [**muhng**-ger, **mong**-]noun

Sentence: The mongering salesman convinced the naive woman to buy his product. Memory Trick: Monger is similar to hunger and a hungry person will do anything for food, just like how a mongering salesman will tell you anything to get you to by their product.

to contemplate; visualize Sentence: The athlete evisaged what it would be like to win the championship. Memory Trick: Envisage has the beginning of the word vision in it, and vision means to see or to visualize.
 * Envisaging:** [en-**viz**-ij] verb

Transcendently: [tran-sen-duhnt] adjective going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.



Sentence: His transcendental work was superior to the rest of the class. Memory Trick: Transcend means to rise, which is similar to surpass

Gajaba Naraddage AP Language and Composition