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    Circumspect Vs Circumscribe

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    Circumscribe means to draw a line around or limit, while circumspect means to be cautious and watchful. The document provides examples of how circumscribe can refer to literally drawing a line around an area on a map, or figuratively limiting one's daily activities. It also explains that circumspect relates to being wary and looking around carefully, as someone new to a city might be when approached by strangers. The document concludes with a multiple choice question asking for the antonym of circumscribed, with the answer being unbounded as the opposite of limited.

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    Circumscribe means to draw a line around or limit, while circumspect means to be cautious and watchful. The document provides examples of how circumscribe can refer to literally drawing a line around an area on a map, or figuratively limiting one's daily activities. It also explains that circumspect relates to being wary and looking around carefully, as someone new to a city might be when approached by strangers. The document concludes with a multiple choice question asking for the antonym of circumscribed, with the answer being unbounded as the opposite of limited.

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    Circumscribe means to draw a line around or limit, while circumspect means to be cautious and watchful. The document provides examples of how circumscribe can refer to literally drawing a line around an area on a map, or figuratively limiting one's daily activities. It also explains that circumspect relates to being wary and looking around carefully, as someone new to a city might be when approached by strangers. The document concludes with a multiple choice question asking for the antonym of circumscribed, with the answer being unbounded as the opposite of limited.

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    Circumscribe means to draw a line around or limit, while circumspect means to be cautious and watchful. The document provides examples of how circumscribe can refer to literally drawing a line around an area on a map, or figuratively limiting one's daily activities. It also explains that circumspect relates to being wary and looking around carefully, as someone new to a city might be when approached by strangers. The document concludes with a multiple choice question asking for the antonym of circumscribed, with the answer being unbounded as the opposite of limited.

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    Circumspect vs Circumscribe

    If something is circumscribed it is limited. Say everyday I walk the same way to work, go to
    the same restaurants and eat the same food. My life would be pretty circumscribed.
    Circumscribe can also be used more literally, as in to draw a line around.
    Dave picked up a city map and circumscribed a line around his neighborhood.
    To be circumspect is to be cautious. The spect root means to see (think of spectacles.) By
    extension, if you are constantly looking around you are being watchful or cautious.
    (Important synonyms would be wary and chary.)
    New to the city, Daniel was circumspect/circumscribe when people whom he didnt know
    accosted him.
    Ans: circumspect

    CIRCUMSCRIBED
    (A) inimitable
    (B) unbounded
    (C) complete
    (D) cursory
    (E) liberal
    This one is a little trickier. The opposite of circumscribed would be unlimited. Unbounded is a
    synonym for unlimited. Answer (B). Inimitable means not capable of being imitated (its not
    the answer.) And dont get tripped up by (C). The opposite of complete is incomplete.
    Incomplete is not a synonym for circumscribed.

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