Chapter 10-15 Vocab

Question 1

Permanent, not being able to be forgotten or removed.

Answer 1

Indelibly

Question 2

A very small amount of money paid to someone as wage or allowance.

Answer 2

Pittance

Question 3

A person whose job is to help people in hospitals with their financial and social problems.

Answer 3

Almoner

Question 4

Regard with distaste or hatred.

Answer 4

Abhor

Question 5

Reserved, not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.

Answer 5

Reticent

Question 6

A period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.

Answer 6

Vigil

Question 7

A sculpture or model of a person.

Answer 7

Effigy

Question 8

Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

Answer 8

Indignation

Question 9

Persuade someone out of doing something or to not do something.

Answer 9

Dissuading

Question 10

The study of insects.

Answer 10

Entomology

Question 11

Not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final.

Answer 11

Irrevocable

Question 12

Deserving or arousing pity.

Answer 12

Piteous

Question 13

Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.

Answer 13

Surmise

Question 14

An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.

Answer 14

Conjecture

Question 15

An expert judge in matters of taste.

Answer 15

Connoisseur

Question 16

Roughly or Rowdily.

Answer 16

Ruffianly

Question 17

Of the nature of, due to, or characterized by deep respect for someone or something.

Answer 17

Reverential

Question 18

Not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties.

Answer 18

Inexorably

Question 19

A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.

Answer 19

Quagmire

Question 20

Noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.

Answer 20

Miasmatic