Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: carry-over Your choice? generalization of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697 an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds   (Noun: caruncle) a portable container for carrying several objects