Chapter 7: Roots Of Empathy

Question 1

Arrange

Answer 1

to plan, prepare for, or organize something

The bodyguard of skater Tonya Harding, Eckardt had arranged to have thugs attack Nancy Kerrigan.

Question 2

Thugs attack

Answer 2

a man who acts violently, especially to commit a crime

Question 3

Archrival

Answer 3

the chief rival of a person, team, or organization.

Harding’s archrival for the 1994 woman’s Olympic figure skating gold medal.

Question 4

Battered

Answer 4

hurt by being repeatedly hit

Kerrigan’s knee was battered.

Question 5

Sidelining

Answer 5

If a sports player is sidelined they are prevented from playing or competing, and can only watch.

Question 6

Sobbing

Answer 6

to cry noisily, taking in deep breaths

Question 7

Mean-spirited

Answer 7

inconsiderate and unsympathetic.

Question 8

Fault line

Answer 8

a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail

Question 9

Child molester

Answer 9

to touch or attack someone in a sexual way against their wishes

Question 10

perpetrator

Answer 10

someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act.

Question 11

Blot sth out

Answer 11

to stop yourself thinking about something unpleasant.

Question 12

Inflict

Answer 12

to force someone to experience something very unpleasant

Inflict damage on victims

Question 13

Precipitate

Answer 13

to make something happen suddenly or sooner than expected

Question 14

Perverted

Answer 14

considered strange and unpleasant by most people

Perverted fantasy of molesters…

Question 15

Detachment

Answer 15

a feeling of not being emotionally involved

Emotional detachment on child,

Question 16

Ensue

Answer 16

to happen after something else, especially as a result of it

Ensuing the plan…

Question 17

Revulsion

Answer 17

a strong, often sudden, feeling that something is extremely unpleasant

Question 18

Utter

Answer 18

Extreme or complete

Utter lack of empathy…

Question 19

Devise

Answer 19

to use knowledge and imagination to think of or plan something:

Question 20

Reenactment

Answer 20

If you re-enact an event, you try to make it happen again in exactly the same way that it happened the first time, often as an entertainment or as a way to help people remember certain facts about an event:

Reenactment of a crime

Question 21

Perverse

Answer 21

strange and not what most people would expect or enjoy

… fight their perverse sexual urges…

Question 22

Instill

Answer 22

to put a feeling, idea, or principle gradually into someone’s mind, so that it has a strong influence on the way that person thinks or behaves

Hope for instilling a sense of empathy in offenders…

Question 23

Notorious

Answer 23

famous for something immoral or bad

Question 24

Compassion

Answer 24

a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them

Question 25

Twinge of conscience

Answer 25

a sudden short feeling of physical or mental pain:

the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel responsible for:

Question 26

perplexing

Answer 26

confusing, often because you do not know how to solve something:

Question 27

Glib

Answer 27

speaking or spoken in a confident way, but without careful thought or honesty

Glib liar…

Question 28

Cynicism

Answer 28

the belief that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere.

Question 29

Plausible

Answer 29

seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed

Plausible explanation

Question 30

Intimidate

Answer 30

to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do

Question 31

Ominous

Answer 31

suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen:

Ominous ways

Question 32

Breed apart

Answer 32

more special than others of the same kind

Those athletes are a breed apart.

Question 33

Scrambled

Answer 33

to put things such as words or letters in the wrong order so that they do not make sense

Decipher words that have been scrambled.

Question 34

Shallowness

Answer 34

the fact of measuring only a short distance from the top to the bottom, or from where something is to the ground or surface

Question 35

Callousness

Answer 35

behaviour that is unkind, cruel, and without sympathy or feeling for other people

Question 36

Contend

Answer 36

to say that something is true or is a fact