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Chpt 13 Written Com
Written Communications and Mail Processing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A title conferred by a college, university, or professional school on completion of a program of study | academic degree |
| Having qualities that make one liked and easy to deal with. | amiable |
| Furnishing with notes that are usually critical or explanatory. | annotating |
| Of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time. | archaic |
| To have filed or collected records or documents. | archived |
| A durable, formal paper used for documents. | bond |
| Placed in a specific division of a system of classification. | categorically |
| Groups of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence. | clauses |
| Method of payment used when an article or item is delivered and payment is expected before it is released. | collect on delivery (COD) |
| Expressing much in brief form. | concise |
| Assuming an air of superiority | condescending |
| The second and following pages of a letter. | continuation pages |
| Marked by rude or peremptory shortness. | curt |
| To disperse throughout. | disseminate |
| Mail that is sent within the boundaries of the United States and its territories. | domestic mail |
| Directly abutting or immediately adjacent, as set even with an edge of a type page or column; having no indention. | flush |
| A measure around a body or item. | girth |
| The study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence; a study of what is to be preferred and what avoided in inflection and syntax. | grammar |
| Mail that is sent outside the boundaries of the United States and its territories. | international mail |
| Belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing; indwelling, inward. | intrinsic |
| A piece of mail. | mailpiece |
| A sheet of microfilm containing rows of microimages of pages of printed matter. | microfiche |
| A set of pictures, drawings, documents or photographs either bound in book form or loose in a folder. | portfolio |
| A quantity of paper weighing 20 lb or consisting of, variously, 480, 500, or 516 sheets. | ream |
| The receiver of some thing or item. | recipient |
| Sellers of stationery. | stationers |
| A number based on the weight of a ream of paper containing 500 sheets. | substance number |
| Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary. | superfluous |
| A marking in paper resulting from differences in thickness usually produced by the pressure of a projecting design in the mold or on a processing roll and visible when the paper is held up to the light. | watermark |