Chap 3 part 2

Question 1

Inured

Answer 1

accustom (someone) to something unpleasant

Question 2

Effusive

Answer 2

expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in a heartfelt manner

Question 3

Maudlin

Answer 3

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental (often through drunkenness)

Question 4

Coalesce

Answer 4

come together and form one mass or whole

Question 5

Agglomerate

Answer 5

to collect or form into a mass or group (usually used for things not people)

Question 6

Syncopate

Answer 6

the shortening of a word by dropping middle letters or sounds; the displacement of beats in a musical piece

Question 7

Amortized

Answer 7

to gradually reduce a debt

Question 8

Hardy

Answer 8

robust; strong

Question 9

Inveigle

Answer 9

persuade one to do something through deception or flattery

Question 10

Hector

Answer 10

to talk to one in a bullying way

Question 11

Marginalize

Answer 11

to treat (one, a theory or thing) as insignificant

Question 12

Presage

Answer 12

foreshadow something (usually bad)

Question 13

Erroneously

Answer 13

wrongly

Question 14

Deftly

Answer 14

in a way that is neatly skillful and quick in movement; in a clever way

Question 15

Abhorrent

Answer 15

inspiring disgust and loathing

Question 16

Consanguineous

Answer 16

of the same blood

Question 17

Coltish

Answer 17

energetic but awkward in one’s movement or behavior

Question 18

Cumbersome

Answer 18

large or heavy and thereofore hard to carry

Question 19

Beguilded

Answer 19

trick one into doing something

Question 20

Chary

Answer 20

cautiously reluctant to do something

Question 21

Sentries

Answer 21

a soldier stationed to guard

Question 22

Sage

Answer 22

scholar

Question 23

Sycophant

Answer 23

‘yes-man’

Question 24

Fecund

Answer 24

fertile

Question 25

Imperius

Answer 25

assuming power or authority w/out justification

Question 26

Forebears

Answer 26

ancestors

Question 27

Harbingers

Answer 27

a person or thing that announces the approach of another