Daily Vocab Quiz 4

Question 0

Transient

Answer 0

Existing for a short time, especially as a temporary guest, boarder, or laborer

Question 1

Proviso

Answer 1

A clause in a statute, contract, or familiar document making a qualification, condition, or restriction

Question 2

Plutocracy

Answer 2

Govt. or state in which the wealthy class rules

Question 3

Pauperism

Answer 3

State or condition of utter poverty

Question 4

Spoils system

Answer 4

Arrangement where party leaders reward loyalists with government jobs

Question 5

Censure

Answer 5

To express severe disapproval of someone or something, typically in a formal statement.

Question 6

Textile

Answer 6

Any cloth or fabric, especially those produced by weaving or knitting

Question 7

Laissez faire

Answer 7

Doctrine based on the economic theory that the govt. shouldn’t interfere in business or economy

Question 8

Patent

Answer 8

Grant made by govt. that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make/use/sell the invention for a set period of time

Question 9

Antebellum

Answer 9

Before or existing before the war. Esp. the American civil war

Question 10

Evangelical

Answer 10

Pertaining to certain movements within Protestant churches that stressed salvation by faith in the death of Jesus

Question 11

Utopian

Answer 11

Involving a state of idealized perfection

Question 12

Secular

Answer 12

Of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious

Question 13

Itinerant

Answer 13

Traveling from place to place (minister, judge, sales representative)

Question 14

Polygamy

Answer 14

Practice of having more than one spouse at a time

Question 15

Deviancy

Answer 15

Departing from the normal; abnormal behavior

Question 16

Bigotry

Answer 16

Narrow mindedness, stubborn and complete intolerance or any belief that differs from one’s own

Question 17

Lynch

Answer 17

To put to death, esp. by hanging, through mob action and without legal authority

Question 18

Chattel

Answer 18

Moveable article or personal property (inanimate/animate)

Question 19

Martyr

Answer 19

Person who sacrifices something of great value, esp. their life itself

Question 20

Spiritual

Answer 20

Religious hymn of folk song of African American slave origin