[Vocabulario Inglés] Analyze, Anarchy, Ancestor

Analyze [AN i LYZ] 

1. To separate into continuent parts so as to determine their nature, proportion, interrelationship, etc.
2. To examine in detail to find out nature, tendencies, etc, of something
3. to psychoanalize

• Heat is often very handy as a tool to help analyze the composition of substances, because one vaporized the sustances´unique  light spectra can be recorded
• A microscope is a useful tool tro analyze things that are invisible to the naked eye

Anarchy [AN er kee]

1. A complete lack of government
2. Characterized by a political disorder and violence
3. Lawlessness 
4. Disorder in any area of activity or endeavor

• With no government in power, anarchy reigned supreme
• In the current state of anarchy, looting and violence were the everyday states of affairs
• With no proven theory as to the mechanism of the copelia virus, anarchy prevailed in the field of viral research

Ancestor [AN ses tore] 

1. Someone from whom one is descended, especially one earlier than a grandfather, forefather, forebear
2. an earlier kind of animal from which later types have involved
3. anything regarded as a forerunner of a thing that developed later

• My neighbor Bryan claims that Davey  Crockett was his ancestor
• The sabertooth tiger is thought to be an ancestor of today´s big cats  as well  as domesticated cats

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