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General Means Imprecise H Sentence Employee Provide Description

Word general
QType H
Instructions In this sentence, general means:
Sentence The employee was only able to provide a general description of a male wearing a dark hoodie and camouflage pants.
Source Washington Times
Source URL https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/7/search-for-reported-gunman-causes-scare-at-shoreli/
Source Title Shoreline schools to reopen Thursday after lockdown
Choices talkative | gorgeous | imprecise | pessimistic
Correct Answer imprecise
Definition In this question, general is an adjective that means somewhat indefinite.
Blurb

If I ask you to give me a general sense of how a car works, I'm looking for you to describe the two or three main principals in a few minutes, not to open the hood, take apart your engine, and tell me everything you know.

General comes from the French word générale, which means "common to all people," but we use it for more than just people. You might inquire about the general habits of schoolchildren, or the general temperature at night in the desert. And when someone's a general in the army or another organization, like the Surgeon General of the United States, for example, that means they oversee everything. So "general" is a high ranking, because generals are in charge of so many.

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