Extra Vocab

Question 1

AMBIVALENT

Answer 1

simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action

Question 2

EXPURGATE

Answer 2

to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous

Question 3

PUNDITS

Answer 3

a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media
a learned man

Question 4

CRAVEN

Answer 4

lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted

Question 5

DELETERIOUS

Answer 5

harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Question 6

CONTRIVED

Answer 6

to make schemes, to devise, to plan

Question 7

PAROCHIAL

Answer 7

of or relating to a church parish

Question 8

NEOLOGISMS

Answer 8

a new word, usage, or expression

Question 9

CEREBRAL

Answer 9

relating to the brain or intellect, appealing to intellectual appreciation

Question 10

ERRONEOUS

Answer 10

containing or characterized by error

Question 11

SESQUIPEDALIAN

Answer 11

having many syllables, given to or characterized by the use of long words

adj.

latin: literally, a foot and a half long

Question 12

CONSENTIENCE

Answer 12

concurrence, being in agreement, united in opinion