20 Vocab Words Part 3

Question 1

1
: to take an oblique course
2
: to look askance

Answer 1

Skew

Question 2

obviously harmful

Answer 2

Detrimental

Question 3

a : to set apart

Answer 3

Sequester

Question 4

: a name or phrase that describes the character of someone or something : nickname

Answer 4

Sobriquet

Question 5

1
a :  to destroy completely :  wipe out
b :  to pull up by the root
2
\:  to cut out by surgery

Answer 5

Extirpation

Question 6

The process of :
a : surgical removal
b : loss of a part (as ice from a glacier or the outside of a nose cone) by melting or vaporization

Answer 6

Ablation

Question 7

: damaging or harmful
The chemical is deleterious to the environment.
The drug has no deleterious effects on patients.

Answer 7

Deleterious

Question 8

: highly injurious or destructive : deadly

archaic : wicked

Answer 8

Pernicious

Question 9

incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

Answer 9

Contumacion

Question 10

: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

Answer 10

Sedition

Question 11

: the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues

Answer 11

Cabal

Question 12

1
: deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery
2
: a piece of sharp practice (as at law) : trick

Answer 12

Chicanery

Question 13

1
: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination
2
: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group

Answer 13

Hegemony

Question 14

1
: a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language
2
: the condition of one that is discredited : bad repute

Answer 14

Obloquy

Question 15

1

: depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by law

Answer 15

Arbitrary

Question 16

1
archaic : governmental rule
2
: a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions

Answer 16

Regimented

Question 17

a : done or undertaken by one person or party
b : of, relating to, or affecting one side of a subject : one-sided
c : constituting or relating to a contract or engagement by which an express obligation to do or forbear is imposed on only one party

Answer 17

Unilateral

Question 18

: a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument

Answer 18

Contention

Question 19

blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light

Answer 19

Opaque

Question 20

: to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice

Answer 20

Abstain