English II

Question 0

Exhort

Answer 0

To urge or persuade (someone) earnestly; advise strongly

Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence.

Question 1

Slate

Answer 1

A list of the candidates of a political party running for various offices

Question 2

Commission

Answer 2

A public board or administrative body
The Federal Trade Commission investigates false advertising.
To authorize or engage (someone to do something)
The city will commission an architect to design the building.

Question 3

Wholesale

Answer 3

Extensively; indiscriminately

The Soviet model was copied wholesale.

Question 4

Centrifugal

Answer 4

Moving or directed away from a center or axis ( centripetal)
Centrifugal movement from Chang’an

Question 5

Ad hoc

Answer 5

For the specific purpose, case, or situation at hand and for no other (adv.)
Improvised and often impromptu (adj.)

Question 6

Amenity

Answer 6

The quality of being pleasant or attractive; agreeableness

Question 7

Knack

Answer 7

A special talent or skill, especially one difficult to explain or teach
Knack for

Question 8

Perverse

Answer 8

Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved
Having an effect opposite to what is intended or expected
Regulation [of child care] to increase quality may have the perverse effect of driving some children into unregulated care.

Question 9

Disfranchise

Answer 9

To deprive of a privilege, immunity, or right of citizenship, especially the right to vote; disenfranchise.

Question 10

Bigotry

Answer 10

Extreme intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own

Question 11

Opt for

Answer 11

To show preference (for) or choose (to do something)

Voters opted for conservative candidates.

Question 12

Endemic

Answer 12

Common in or inherent to an enterprise or situation

Division was endemic to the suffrage movement.

Question 13

Chastise

Answer 13

To punish as for wrongdoing

Question 14

Spurious

Answer 14

Not trustworthy; dubious or fallacious

His ‘poor peasant’ status was spurious.

Question 15

Nepotism

Answer 15

The practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs

Question 16

Vacillate

Answer 16

To be unable to choose between different courses of action or opinions; waver
She vacillated about whether to leave.

To change between one state and another; fluctuate
The weather vacillated between sunny and rainy.

Question 17

Moratorium

Answer 17

A suspension of an ongoing or planned activity

A moratorium on timber cutting

Question 18

Unviable

Answer 18

Not capable of succeeding, esp financially

the neighborhood had proved economically unviable.

Question 19

Acquiesce

Answer 19

(intr; often foll by in or to) to comply (with); assent (to) without protest

Question 20

Opt out

Answer 20

To choose not to participate in something: “give individual schools the right to opt out of the local educational authority”

Question 21

Particularity(-ies)

Answer 21

great attentiveness to detail; fastidiousness
Detailed character
Please excuse my obsession with the particularities of Lake Park Crescent.

Question 22

Tenuous

Answer 22

Weak or insubstantial; flimsy
a tenuous argument; a tenuous link between pieces of evidence
Precarious or insecure
tenuous survival

Question 23

Scathing

Answer 23

Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical

Khrushchev made a scathing attack on China.

Question 24

Generic

Answer 24

Relating to or descriptive of an entire group or class
Cancer is a generic term for a group of diseases in which cells proliferate wildly.
Lacking specificity; general
made some generic remarks about how to save for retirement.