Ben Button Vocab

Question 1

responsive to or appreciative of what is pleasurable to the senses; pertaining to
the sense of what is beautiful

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aesthetic (adj)

Question 2

a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially; one from a former age

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anachronism (noun)

Question 3

something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified

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anomaly (noun)

Question 4

a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom

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apparition (noun)

Question 5

to gift or give

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bestow (verb)

Question 6

a widow holding property or a title from her deceased husband; a dignified elderly
woman

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dowager (noun)

Question 7

having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring

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filial (adj)

Question 8

a person’s manner of walking

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gait (noun)

Question 9

strange and unpleasant, especially in a silly or slightly frightening way

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grotesque (adj)

Question 10

lacking sense, significance, or idea; preposterous

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inane (adj)

Question 11

harmful but enticing

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insidious (adj)

Question 12

tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy

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invidious (adj)

Question 13

to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil:

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mar (verb)

Question 14

enrolled as a member of a body and especially of a college or university

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matriculation (noun)

Question 15

resistant to persuasion or softening influences

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obdurate (adj)

Question 16

language

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parlance (noun)

Question 17

next to the last

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penultimate (adj)

Question 18

Relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero; adolescent coming-of-age story—Huckleberry Finn

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picaresque (adj)

Question 19

a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability

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prodigy (noun)

Question 20

habitually complaining

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querulous (adj)

Question 21

without

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sans (adj)

Question 22

seventy (+) years old

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septuagenarian (adj)

Question 23

a type of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

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phaeton (noun)

Question 23

a light closed horse-drawn carriage with the driver outside in front

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brougham (noun)

Question 24

something in literature that refers to something biblical or mythological.

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allusion (noun)

Question 25

an ancestor of Noah believed to have lived 969 years; oldest person in the
Hebrew bible–ALLUSION

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Methuselah (noun)

Question 26

mythical immortal man The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second

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Wandering Jew (noun)

Question 27

existing before a war; especially :existing before the American Civil War

= before
= anger, war, dangerous

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Ante-bellum (adj)

Ante =
Bellum/ Bell =

Question 28

personally acceptable or welcome
= unwelcome, shunned

= person
= welcome

Answer 28

persona grata (noun)
(persona non grata) =

persona =
grata =