ENGLISH: IV Lesson E

Question 1

Prophylactic

Answer 1

n. A medicine or course of action used to prevent a disease

Adj. intended to prevent a disease

Question 2

Watershed

Answer 2

An event or period marking a turning point in a course of action or state of affairs

Question 3

Grassroots

Answer 3

A movement that starts among the common people

Question 4

Austerity

Answer 4

Sternness or severity in anger or attitude

Question 5

Ideology

Answer 5

Principles or beliefs associated with a group or person

Question 6

Melting pot

Answer 6

A place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together

Question 7

Soporific

Answer 7

Causing sleep; intending to induce drowsiness

Question 8

Fraught

Answer 8

Causing or affected by great anxiety or stress , full of , accompanied by

Question 9

Peripatetic

Answer 9

Going from place to place

Question 10

Proxy

Answer 10

One who has been given permission to act for another; a figure that can be used to represent the value of something

Question 11

Punctilious

Answer 11

Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

Question 12

Obstreperous

Answer 12

Noisy and difficult to control

Question 13

Ubiquitous

Answer 13

Present, appearing, or found everywhere

Question 14

Atavistic

Answer 14

Relations to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral

Question 15

Pundit

Answer 15

And expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public