English Vocab List 1

Question 1

Today at lunch he was being chauvinistic towards the weak little girl.

Answer 1

an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite gender.

Question 2

A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing

Answer 2

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Question 3

iconoclastic
This vision is iconoclastic and incredible

Answer 3

characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.

Question 4

pagination
The pair’s clashes over clothes and pagination became highlights of the documentary

Answer 4

the sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical.

Question 5

diction
The actor’s diction was so poor I could hardly understand what he was saying

Answer 5

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Question 6

Simile
The children fight like cats and dogs.

Answer 6

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 7

immutable
It is an immutable American belief that wilderness can mend the broken soul.

Answer 7

unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

Question 8

ameliorate
make something bad or unsatisfactory better.

Answer 8

“the reform did much to ameliorate living standards

Question 9

abstract
existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Answer 9

In the high Arctic, climate change isn’t an abstract concept

Question 10

protagonist
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Answer 10

He was the protagonist in the movie.

Question 11

antagonist
the person who goes against the protagonist

Answer 11

The antagonist almost ruined the movie by almost killing the protagonist.

Question 12

inextricable
impossible to disentangle or separate.

Answer 12

In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often inextricable

Question 13

Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Answer 13

your comparing something

Question 14

Naive
Easily fooled or dumb

Answer 14

Andy had a sweet, naive look when he smiled”

Question 15

contemporary
living or occurring at the same time.

Answer 15

the event was recorded by a contemporary historian