CAOS 2

Question 1

rain check

Answer 1

A rain check is a free ticket that is given to people when an outdoor game or event is stopped because of rain or bad weather, so that they can go to it when it is held again.

Question 2

texas chainsaw massacre

Answer 2

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel.

Question 3

cunning

Answer 3

1 : dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end
2 : characterized by wiliness and trickery
3 : prettily appealing : CUTE
4 : displaying keen insight
a cunning observation

Question 4

conscientious

Answer 4

1 : METICULOUS, CAREFUL
a conscientious listener
2 : governed by or conforming to the dictates of conscience : SCRUPULOUS
a conscientious public servant

Question 5

bonkers

Answer 5

CRAZY, MAD

fans went bonkers when their team won

Question 6

exaltation

Answer 6

1 : an act of exalting : the state of being exalted
2 : an excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance
3 : an increase in degree or intensity
exaltation of virulence of a virus

Question 7

whim

Answer 7

1 : a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : FANCY
quit his job on a whim
2 : a large capstan that is made with one or more radiating arms to which a horse may be yoked and that is used in mines for raising ore or water

Question 8

indulge

Answer 8

1a : to give free rein to
b : to take unrestrained pleasure in : GRATIFY
2a : to yield to the desire of : HUMOR
please indulge me for a moment
b : to treat with excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration

Question 9

transubstantiation

Answer 9

Transubstantiation (Latin: transsubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Question 10

plebe

Answer 10

1 : a freshman at a military or naval academy
2a : one of the common people : PLEBEIAN
b: an ordinary person who lacks the knowledge of an insider

Question 11

atrocious

Answer 11

1 : extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel : BARBARIC
prisoners subjected to atrocious treatment
2 : APPALLING, HORRIFYING
the atrocious weapons of modern war
an atrocious accident
3a : utterly revolting : ABOMINABLE
atrocious working conditions
atrocious weather
b : of very poor quality
atrocious handwriting

Question 12

insidious

Answer 12

1a : having a gradual and cumulative effect : SUBTLE
the insidious pressures of modern life
b of a disease : developing so gradually as to be well established before becoming apparent
2a : awaiting a chance to entrap : TREACHEROUS
b : harmful but enticing : SEDUCTIVE
insidious drugs

Question 13

blasphemous

Answer 13

impiously irreverent : PROFANE
a blasphemous writer
a blasphemous epithet
The claims were blasphemous.

Question 14

famish

Answer 14

to cause to suffer severely from hunger,

archaic : to cause to starve to death

Question 15

pièce de résistance

Answer 15

1 : the chief dish of a meal

2 : an outstanding item or event : SHOWPIECE

Question 16

extol

Answer 16

to praise highly : GLORIFY

Question 17

incantation

Answer 17

a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic
also : a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect

Question 18

perdition

Answer 18

1a archaic : utter destruction
b obsolete : LOSS
2a : eternal damnation
b : HELL

Question 19

flagellating

Answer 19

1 : WHIP, SCOURGE

2 : to drive or punish as if by whipping

Question 20

penance

Answer 20

punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing.
a sacrament in which a member of the Church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution.

Question 21

atrocity

Answer 21

1 : a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation
the atrocities of war
2 : the quality or state of being atrocious
… the paralysing atrocity of the thought which occupied her.

Question 22

limbo

Answer 22

1 often capitalized : an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism
2a : a place or state of restraint or confinement
trapping travelers in an airless limbo
— Sam Boal
b : a place or state of neglect or oblivion
proposals kept in limbo
c : an intermediate or transitional place or state
the adolescent occupies a special human limbo
— New Republic
d : a state of uncertainty
The graduate was in limbo for a while, trying to decide what to do next.