Ed's Vocab 5

Question 1

Demure

Answer 1

1 : reserved, modest
2 : affectedly modest, reserved, or serious : coy
the previously demure maiden began making some surprisingly shocking remarks

Question 2

Purview

Answer 2

1 a : the body or enacting part of a statute
b : the limit, purpose, or scope of a statute
2 : the range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention

Question 3

Frowzy

Answer 3

1 : musty, stale <a></a>

2 : having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance <a></a>

Question 4

Drupelet

Answer 4

: a small drupe; specifically : one of the individual parts of an aggregate fruit (as the raspberry)

Question 5

Précis

Answer 5

: a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts
Other forms: plural pré·cis -ˈsēz, -(ˌ)sēz\

Question 6

Tawny

Answer 6

1 : of the color tawny

2 : of a warm sandy color

Question 7

Scads

Answer 7

: a large number or quantity — usually used in plural

Question 8

Imprimatur

Answer 8

1 a : a license to print or publish especially by Roman Catholic episcopal authority
b : approval of a publication under circumstances of official censorship
2 a : sanction, approval
b : imprint
c : a mark of approval or distinction
could not begin the project without the boss’s imprimatur

Question 9

Trousseau

Answer 9

: the personal possessions of a bride usually including clothes, accessories, and household linens and wares
Other forms: plural trous·seaux -(ˌ)sōz, -ˈsōz\ or trous·seaus

Question 10

Denunciation

Answer 10

Examples

the official denunciation of the congresswoman’s actions before the full house

Question 11

Coerce

Answer 11

1 : to restrain or dominate by force
2 : to compel to an act or choice
3 : to achieve by force or threat

Question 12

Wheedle

Answer 12

1 : to influence or entice by soft words or flattery

2 : to gain or get by wheedling

Question 13

Concomitantly

Answer 13

: something that accompanies or is collaterally connected with something else : accompaniment
Examples
hunger, a lack of education, and other concomitants of poverty
disease is all too often one of the concomitants of poverty

Question 14

Reprove

Answer 14

1 : to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent
2 : to express disapproval of : censure
3 obsolete : disprove, refute
4 obsolete : convince, convict

Question 15

Balustrade

Answer 15

1 : a row of balusters topped by a rail
2 : a low parapet or barrier
Examples
an ornately carved balustrade for the staircase

Question 16

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Answer 16

Yep

Question 17

Sodality

Answer 17

1 : brotherhood, community
2 : an organized society or fellowship; specifically : a devotional or charitable association of Roman Catholic laity
a 19th-century observer of American society noted that Americans had a fondness for forming sodalities
a tragic loss of life that was felt throughout the sodality of firefighters

Question 18

Confraternity

Answer 18

1 : a society devoted especially to a religious or charitable cause
2 : fraternal union

Question 19

Agoraphobic

Answer 19

: abnormal fear of being helpless in an embarrassing or unescapable situation that is characterized especially by the avoidance of open or public places

Question 20

Brio

Answer 20

: enthusiastic vigor : vivacity, verve
Examples
She sings with brio.
impressed the interviewers with his poise and brio

Question 21

Recursive

Answer 21

1 : of, relating to, or involving recursion <a></a>

2 : of, relating to, or constituting a procedure that can repeat itself indefinitely <a></a>

Question 22

Verisimilitude

Answer 22

1 : having the appearance of truth : probable

2 : depicting realism (as in art or literature)

Question 23

Universality

Answer 23

1 : the quality or state of being universal

2 : universal comprehensiveness in range

Question 24

Jeremiad

Answer 24

: a prolonged lamentation or complaint; also : a cautionary or angry harangue
a jeremiad against the political apathy shown by so many young people

Question 25

Modus Operandi

Answer 25

: a method of procedure; especially : a distinct pattern or method of operation that indicates or suggests the work of a single criminal in more than one crime

Question 26

Fait Accompli

Answer 26

: a thing accomplished and presumably irreversible | Other forms: plural faits accomplis \same, or -ˈplēz\

Question 27

Mandala

Answer 27

1 : a Hindu or Buddhist graphic symbol of the universe; specifically : a circle enclosing a square with a deity on each side that is used chiefly as an aid to meditation 2 : a graphic and often symbolic pattern usually in the form of a circle divided into four separate sections or bearing a multiple projection of an image

Question 28

Mandarin

Answer 28

c : a person of position and influence often in intellectual or literary circles; especially : an elder and often traditionalist or reactionary member of such a circle

Question 29

Ingenuous

Answer 29

2 a : showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness b : lacking craft or subtlety

Question 30

Obscurant

Answer 30

: tending to make obscure | obscurant noun

Question 31

Inveigh

Answer 31

: to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail in·veigh·er noun Examples always inveighing against the high property taxes that they were forced to pay

Question 32

Panglossian

Answer 32

: marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic

Question 33

Pictographic

Answer 33

1 : an ancient or prehistoric drawing or painting on a rock wall 2 : one of the symbols belonging to a pictorial graphic system 3 : a diagram representing statistical data by pictorial forms

Question 34

Attitudinal

Answer 34

: relating to, based on, or expressive of personal attitudes or feelings at·ti·tu·di·nal·ly \-ə-lē\ adverb

Question 35

Etiologic

Answer 35

1 : assigning or seeking to assign a cause | 2 : of or relating to etiology

Question 36

Sermonette

Answer 36

: a short sermon