You have to remember the story in order to answer.That is what "reading comprehension"is all about.
Conceive - think of/imagine (1)
inhibit - stop/hold back (2)
tentative - immeadiete/right now (3)
verify - check on/see (4)
compensate - give someone something (5)
surpass - out grow/go beyond (6)
derive - Get, recieve, etc. (7)
supplement - fufill, fill up (8)
diversity - variety, lots of differences, (9)
moderate - small, cheap (10)
Bro, google is your friend. All you needed was to understand the definitions for this and you would of been fine... you could of used a thesaurus if the definitions google gave didn't make sense.
They are all about the same topic. And they use something else as an example of transformation... thus making it an analogy, or a metaphor.
