vocab game #1 Tools A B beckoned signaled, motioned to genealogist one who studies or investigates family history descent ancestry , lineage spawned produced ,gave rise to shunning avoiding keeping away from coin to make,devise mosque islamic place of worship deluged overwhelmed assimlilation absorption of a minority group into a prevailing culture plummet to decline suddenly or steeply ,plunge rambunctious boisterous and disorderly ;noisy and undisciplined mired stuck ,entangled, trapped spate a sudden flood ,rush or outpouring rash outbreak of events within a brief time rhetoric pretentious,insincere, intellectually vacant language scoffs ridicules , mocks inclusiveness taking in all or everything in its scope advocates supporters of a cause precursor predecessor,forerunner,an indicator of something that is to come conglomerate group of businesses or companies