chapter 6

Question 0

acclimatization

Answer 0

becoming used to doing something, getting comfortable

like climate

Question 1

abase

Answer 1

to lower, to humble

Question 2

acquiesce

Answer 2

to agree, to give Into

Question 3

adjunct

Answer 3

something attacked to a main body

junk

Question 4

air

Answer 4

to bring out into the open

Question 5

allegory

Answer 5

symbolic story

Question 6

altruism

Answer 6

goodness, selflessness, generosity

Question 7

amorphous

Answer 7

without shape

Question 8

anterior

Answer 8

placed in front, earlier

Question 9

aperture

Answer 9

opening, hole

Question 10

apprehensive

Answer 10

worried

Question 11

arcane

Answer 11

mysterious, secret

Arcadia

Question 12

ascetic

Answer 12

a person who refuses bodily pleasure

without luxuries

Question 13

assuage

Answer 13

to calm down, to soothe

Question 14

avow

Answer 14

to swear by

Question 15

balk

Answer 15

to hesitate suddenly

Question 16

becalmed

Answer 16

made peaceful or still

Question 17

bellicose

Answer 17

warlike in manner

Question 18

berate

Answer 18

to scold, to criticize

Question 19

blunderbuss

Answer 19

old fashioned shotgun

Question 20

bourgeois

Answer 20

middle class 
conformist and materialistic

Question 21

browbeat

Answer 21

to intimidate, to bully

Question 22

burnish

Answer 22

to polish, to shine

Question 23

cacophonous

Answer 23

harsh sounding, not harmonious

Question 24

callow

Answer 24

immature, inexperienced

Question 25

catharsis

Answer 25

sudden emotional relief

Question 26

caustic

Answer 26

unkind, bitter, sarcastic

Question 27

ceremonious

Answer 27

formal

Question 28

chartered

Answer 28

planned,

plotted, mapped

Question 29

cherubic

Answer 29

angelic, like a baby

Question 30

circuitous

Answer 30

roundabout, not straightforward

Question 31

clemency

Answer 31

mercy

cleMEnCY

Question 32

colloquial

Answer 32

informal but common speech

Question 33

congenial

Answer 33

pleasant, friendly

Question 34

contentious

Answer 34

argumentative

Question 35

contusion

Answer 35

bruise

Question 36

corpulent

Answer 36

fat

Question 37

cosmopolitan

Answer 37

sophisticated

from the city

Question 38

crest

Answer 38

peak,top

Question 39

cupidity

Answer 39

greed

Question 40

dart

Answer 40

to move quickly

Question 41

debauchery

Answer 41

corruption, physical self indulgence

Question 42

decorum

Answer 42

proper behavior

Question 43

defector

Answer 43

one who leaves his or her side to join the enemy

Question 44

demographer

Answer 44

an expert on population statistic

Question 45

deprecate

Answer 45

to criticize

Question 46

determinate

Answer 46

definite, limited

Question 47

didactic

Answer 47

intended to teach, preachy

DAD OR DADa

Question 48

dilapidated

Answer 48

rundown, needing repairs

Question 49

dirge

Answer 49

funeral song

(dirge in marriage, mirage in funeral

Question 50

disbursement

Answer 50

spending

Question 51

dissent

Answer 51

dissagreement, difference in opinion

Question 52

dispassionate

Answer 52

neutral, objective

Question 53

dither

Answer 53

to be indecisive

sister

Question 54

doctrine

Answer 54

something taught

Question 55

drape

Answer 55

to cover loosely

Question 56

drudgery

Answer 56

boring work

Question 57

ebullient

Answer 57

bubbly, high spirited

Question 58

edifying

Answer 58

enlightening, uplifting

Question 59

elicit

Answer 59

to bring out

Question 60

embody

Answer 60

to express, to give concrete form to

Question 61

endemic

Answer 61

limited to, but widespread in, a particular place

Question 62

equanimity

Answer 62

calmness

Question 63

eschew

Answer 63

to avoid

Question 64

ethos

Answer 64

values of a culture

Question 65

exacerbate

Answer 65

to make worse

Question 66

expatriate

Answer 66

to remove one from homeland

Question 67

extricate

Answer 67

to remove

Question 68

extemporize

Answer 68

to perform without rehearsal

Question 69

facade

Answer 69

the front of a building

surface appearance

Question 70

fallow

Answer 70

unplowed, not fertile

Question 71

feint

Answer 71

an action intended to mislead an opponent

Question 72

fetter

Answer 72

a chain

to prevent from moving

Question 73

finesse

Answer 73

skill, gracefulness

Question 74

flippant

Answer 74

joking disrespectfully

Question 75

fluster

Answer 75

to embarass, to upset

Question 76

forswear

Answer 76

to reject

Question 77

fraught

Answer 77

filled with

Question 78

furrow

Answer 78

a ditch or hole in the ground

to wrinkle

Question 79

gag

Answer 79

joke

to prevent from speaking (gag rule)

Question 80

gambol

Answer 80

to jump and dance playfully

Question 81

gentry

Answer 81

high class

Question 82

glaring

Answer 82

obvious

staring angrily

Question 83

gouge

Answer 83

to put holes in

Question 84

gratuitous

Answer 84

uncalled for, unnecessary

Question 85

hack

Answer 85

a writer for hire, anyone with low professional standards

to cut, to chop

Question 86

hedonist

Answer 86

one who loves physical pleasures (sex, food, drink)

Don Juan

Question 87

heretofore

Answer 87

until know

Question 88

iconoclast

Answer 88

one who attacks established beliefs

Question 89

impalpable

Answer 89

unable to be touched or understood

Question 90

implacable

Answer 90

incapable of being soothed or changed

Question 91

impudence

Answer 91

rudeness

Question 92

incantation

Answer 92

magical chant or spell

Question 93

incisive

Answer 93

sharp, cutting

Question 94

incorporeal

Answer 94

without physical existence, not of the body

Question 95

in decorum

Answer 95

lack of good manners

Question 96

infinitesimal

Answer 96

extremely small

Question 97

inlet

Answer 97

small bay, indentation to a shoreline

Question 98

insidious

Answer 98

dangerous in a way that is difficult to see

Question 99

intemperate

Answer 99

extreme

violent

Question 100

invective

Answer 100

insult

Question 101

jaded

Answer 101

cynical, tired, bored