APUSH ch. 18 19 20

Question 1

Centenary

Answer 1

the hundredth anniversary of a significant event

Question 2

Pell-mell

Answer 2

in a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner

Question 3

Acquisitive

Answer 3

having strong desire to own more things

Question 4

GNP

Answer 4

the total monetary value of all goods and service produced in a year

Question 5

Wanton

Answer 5

a cruel or violent action that is deliberate and unprovoked

Question 6

Magnate

Answer 6

a person of great power, rank, and influence

Question 7

Rebates

Answer 7

Secret, privately negotiated reductions below published rates

Question 8

Philanthropy

Answer 8

the desire to promote the welfare of others, usually by donations of money

Question 9

Tempered

Answer 9

Made less intense or violent

Question 10

Wily

Answer 10

full of clever tricks, clever, skilled

Question 11

Defunct

Answer 11

no longer existing or functioning

Question 12

Waxed

Answer 12

to increase in size, strength, or numbers

Question 13

Docile

Answer 13

easily managed or handled

Question 14

Quell

Answer 14

to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to passivity and submission

Question 15

Mandates

Answer 15

an official order or commission to do something

Question 16

Monied

Answer 16

having much money or wealth

Question 17

Wards

Answer 17

a person or body of persons under the protection or tutelage or the government

Question 18

Mores

Answer 18

the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group

Question 19

Lascivious

Answer 19

(of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire

Question 20

Chattel

Answer 20

a personal possession, property other than real estate

Question 21

Espoused

Answer 21

to make one’s own, to adopt or embrace

Question 22

Degenerate

Answer 22

having low moral standards: not honest, proper or good

Question 23

Prodigious

Answer 23

Amazing, wonderful, impressive

Question 24

Destitution

Answer 24

poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for ones self

Question 25

Pluralistic

Answer 25

a state of society in which members of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization

Question 26

Pernicious

Answer 26

having a harmful effect, usually happening gradually

Question 27

Prototype

Answer 27

an original or first model of something from which others are developed or copied

Question 28

Reciprocity

Answer 28

the practice of exchanging things for mutual benefit

Question 29

Appropriations

Answer 29

an act of legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a specific use

Question 30

Meted

Answer 30

given out by measure, to allot

Question 31

Transients

Answer 31

people who stay or work at a place for a short period of time

Question 32

Buffeted

Answer 32

to drive, force, move, or attack by or as if by repeated blows

Question 33

Contracted

Answer 33

to reduce or lessen the supply

Question 34

Affable

Answer 34

pleasantly easy to approach and talk to, friendly

Question 35

Charlatan

Answer 35

a person who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive people

Question 36

Bawdy

Answer 36

humorously indecent talk or writing

Question 37

Ostentatious

Answer 37

intended to attracted attention

Question 38

Infringe

Answer 38

to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress

Question 39

Tenure

Answer 39

the amount of time that a person holds a job, office, or title

Question 40

Acquiesce

Answer 40

To accept something reluctantly without protest