#8 anarchy ~ apartheid

Question 1

anarchy

/ˈænərki/

Answer 1

n. absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder
- The country fell into a state of anarchy after the rebels kidnapped the president and locked the legislature inside the Capitol.
- There was anarchy in the kindergarten when the teacher stepped out of the door for a moment.

Question 2

monarchy

/ˈmɒnərki/

Answer 2

n. a government headed by a king or queen (one leader)

Question 3

anecdote

/ˈænɪkˌdoʊt/

Answer 3

n. a short account of a humorous or revealing incident
- The old lady kept the motorcycle gang thoroughly amused with anecdote after anecdote about her cute little dog.
- Alvare told an anecdote about the time Jessica got her big toe stuck in a bowling ball.
- The vice president set the crowd at ease with an anecdote about his childhood desire to become a vice president.
- To say that the evidence of life on other planets is merely anecdotal is to say that we haven’t captured any aliens, but simply heard a lot of stories from people who claimed to have been kidnapped by flying saucers.

Question 4

anguish

/ˈæŋgwɪʃ/

Answer 4

n. agonizing physical or mental pain
- Theresa had been a nurse in the emergency room for twenty years, but she had never gotten used to the anguish of accident victims.

Question 5

animosity

/ˌænəˈmɒsɪti/

Answer 5

n. resentment; hostility; ill will
- The rivals for the state championship felt great animosity toward each other. Whenever they ran into each other, they snarled.
- A person whose look could kill is a person whose animosity is evident.

Question 6

anomaly

/əˈnɒməli/

Answer 6

n. an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation
- A snowy winter day is not an anomaly, but a snowy July day is.
- A house without a roof is an anomaly - a cold, wet anomaly.

Question 7

anomalous

/əˈnɒmələs/

Answer 7

adj. abnormal; irregular

- A roofless house could be said to be anomalous.

Question 8

antecedent

/ˌæntəˈsidnt/

Answer 8

n. someone or sth. that was before; sth. that provides a model for sth. that came after it
- Your parents and grandparents could be said to be your antecedents; they came before you.
- The horse-drawn wagon is an antecedent of the modern automobile.
Antecedent can also be used as an adjective.
- The oil lamp was antecedent to the light bulb.
In grammar, the antecedent of a pronoun is the person, place or thing to which it refers.
Antecedent is related to a word that is similar in meaning: precedent.

Question 9

antipathy

/ænˈtɪpəθi/

Answer 9

n. firm dislike; a dislike
- I feel antipathy towards bananas wrapped in ham. I do not want them for dinner. I also feel a certain amount of antipathy toward the cook who keeps trying to force me to eat them. My feelings on these matters are quite antipathetic.
- I could also say that ham-wrapped bananas and the cooks who serve them are among my antipathies. My antipathies are the things I don’t like.

Question 10

antithesis

/ænˈtɪθəsɪs/

Answer 10

n. the direct opposite

- Erin is the antithesis of Aaron: Erin is bright and beautiful; Aaron is dull and plain.

Question 11

apartheid

/əˈpɑrtheɪt, -haɪt/

Answer 11

n. the former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa
- The word apartheid is related to the word apart. Under apartheid in South Africa, blacks were kept apart from whites and denied all rights.
- The word apartheid is sometimes applied to less radical forms of racial injustice and to other kinds of separation.
- Critics have sometimes accused American public schools of practicing educational apartheid by providing substandard schooling for nonwhites.