Diction #4

Question 1

commute

Answer 1

travel some distance beteween one’s home and place of work on a regular basis

Question 2

interoperable

Answer 2

able to exchange and make use of information

Question 3

devolution

Answer 3

the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration

Question 4

liable

Answer 4

responsible by law, legally answerable

Question 5

discretion

Answer 5

the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing confidential information

Question 6

enact

Answer 6

make (a bill or other proposal) law

Question 7

coterie

Answer 7

a small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people

Question 8

modus operandi

Answer 8

a particular way or method of doing something

Question 9

debar

Answer 9

exclude or prohibit someone officially from doing something

Question 10

McCarthyism

Answer 10

is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard of evidence. US republican senator Joseph McCarthy, against Communist 1940s-1950s

Question 11

empiricism

Answer 11

the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses,

Question 12

equivocal

Answer 12

open to more than one interpretation

Question 13

futile

Answer 13

incapable of producing any useful result, pointless

Question 14

axiom

Answer 14

a statement which is regarded as being established, accepted or self-evidently true

Question 15

internation law

Answer 15

refers to treaties customs and general principles that define the rights of states, regulate state’s behaviour towards one another, and establish states’ duties and responsibilities towards organizations and individuals within their jurisdictions. Erakat.

Question 16

discern

Answer 16

recognize or find out

Question 17

explicate

Answer 17

analyse and develop

Question 18

prudence

Answer 18

cautiousness

Question 19

elude

Answer 19

fail to be understood

Question 20

facile

Answer 20

ignoring the true complexities of an issue

Question 21

intrinsic

Answer 21

belonging naturally

Question 22

sordid

Answer 22

involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives

Question 23

reify

Answer 23

make something abstract, more concrete or real

Question 24

posit

Answer 24

put forward as fact or as basis for argument

Question 25

de facto

Answer 25

something that happens in practice but is not necessarily established by law

Question 26

de jure

Answer 26

the contrary of de facto; something established by law