Exam Vocab

Question 0

Anithesis

Answer 0

The contrast of ideas, the direct opposite

Question 1

Qualify

Answer 1

Place a limit on a claim by adding a phrase that restricts the argument to certain situations

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

Speech that addresses a personified abstraction, to some one/thing that cannot answer

Question 3

Treatise

Answer 3

Written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

Question 4

Anticlimax

Answer 4

A disappointing end to an exciting series of events

Question 5

Syntax

Answer 5

Arrangement of words or phrases to create a style or tone

Question 6

Subordinate clause

Answer 6

Clause that depends on a main clause, begins with although/ because/ unless/ that

Question 7

Imperative verb

Answer 7

Forms commands or requests, second person subject

Question 8

Empirical

Answer 8

Based on experience rather than theory or logic

Question 9

Empiricism

Answer 9

Theory that knowledge comes only from sensory experience

Question 10

Deplore

Answer 10

Express strong disapproval of something

Question 11

Idiosyncratic

Answer 11

Something peculiar to an individual

Question 12

Self-effacing

Answer 12

Keeping oneself in the background as in humility

Question 13

Satiate

Answer 13

To supply to satisfaction or capacity

Question 14

Endow

Answer 14

To furnish as with some talent faculty or quality/ to equip

Question 15

Pecuniary

Answer 15

Of or relating to money

Question 16

Engender

Answer 16

To produce, cause or give rise to/ to come into existence

Question 17

Meritocracy

Answer 17

Elite group of people whose progress is rewarded and advanced based on their talent

Question 18

Declaratory

Answer 18

Exercise in oratory (speech) or elocution (pronunciation) as in the recitation of a speech

Question 19

Petulant

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Moved to sudden irritation over some trifling annoyance

Question 20

Apportion

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To divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution

Question 21

Staunch

Answer 21

Firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty

Question 22

Constitute

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To establish, compose, form, be tantamount to

Question 23

Constituent

Answer 23

Having power to alter a political constitution or fundamental law