AmerLit warm-ups: vocab. unit 06

Question 1

Anomalous

Answer 1

abnormal

Question 2

Aspersion

Answer 2

a damaging statement

Question 3

Bizarre

Answer 3

extremely strange, very weird in a creepy or negative way

Question 4

fractious

Answer 4

troublesome

Question 5

Brusque

Answer 5

abrupt or rough

Question 6

Cajole

Answer 6

to wheedle

Question 7

Castigate

Answer 7

to reprimand severely

Question 8

occult

Answer 8

(adj.) mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; (v.) to hide, conceal; eclipse; (n.) matters involving the supernatural

Question 9

Contrive

Answer 9

to think up creatively

Question 10

Demagogue

Answer 10

a manipulative and power-hungry leader

Question 11

amnesty

Answer 11

a pardon to a group of people

Question 12

Disabuse

Answer 12

to free from error, to set right in ideas

Question 13

Ennui

Answer 13

complete boredom in life

Question 14

commiserate

Answer 14

to sympathize with

Question 15

Fetter

Answer 15

a chain or shackle

Question 16

Fetter

Answer 16

to chain or shackle

Question 17

Heinous

Answer 17

very offensive

Question 18

extricate

Answer 18

to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort

Question 19

Immutable

Answer 19

unchangeable

Question 20

Insurgent

Answer 20

rising in revolt or revolution

Question 21

Insurgent

Answer 21

a person who rises in revolt

Question 22

Megalomania

Answer 22

a delusion of power

Question 23

Sinecure

Answer 23

an easy job

Question 24

Surreptitious

Answer 24

secretive

Question 25

transgress

Answer 25

to trespass or violate

Question 26

Transmute

Answer 26

to transform

Question 27

Vicarious

Answer 27

experienced by one person through another person