Chapter 1 vocab

Question 1

baker’s dozen

Answer 1

noun 
thirteen (Backers, for fair measure, used to add a roll to each dozen sold)

Question 2

Bicentennial

Answer 2

noun

200th anniversary

Question 3

Brace

Answer 3

noun

two of a kind, pair, couple

Question 4

centennial

Answer 4

noun

100th anniversary

Question 5

decade

Answer 5

noun

period of ten years

Question 6

decathlon

Answer 6

noun

track-and-field contest consisting of ten events

Question 7

decimate

Answer 7

verb

destroy ten percent or more of a large portion of

Question 8

dichotomy

Answer 8

noun

division in two; split

Question 9

fathom

Answer 9

noun

measure of water depth equaling six feet

Question 10

fortnight

Answer 10

noun

period of fourteen days; two weeks

Question 11

millennium

Answer 11

noun

1000 years; 1000th anniversary

Question 12

nonagenarian

Answer 12

noun

person in his or her nineties

Question 13

octogenarian

Answer 13

noun

person in his or her eighties

Question 14

pentagon

Answer 14

noun

plane figure of five sides and five angles

Question 15

plurality

Answer 15

noun

victor’s margin over the runner-up when no candidate has a majority of the votes

Question 16

quadrennial

Answer 16

noun

occurring or being done every four years

Question 17

quadruped

Answer 17

noun

four-footed animal

Question 18

score

Answer 18

group of twenty; twenty

Question 19

septuagenarian

Answer 19

noun

person in his or her seventies

Question 20

sesquicentennial

Answer 20

150th anniversary

Question 21

sexagenarian

Answer 21

noun

person in his or her sixties

Question 22

tercentennial

Answer 22

noun

300th anniversary

Question 23

tithe

Answer 23

noun

one-tenth; tenth part of a person’s income paid as a contribution or tax to support a religious establishment

Question 24

treble

Answer 24

verb

multiply by three; triple

Question 25

triumvirate

Answer 25

noun

ruling body of three; troika