FF Vocab II

Question 1

covert

Answer 1

not openly acknowledged or displayed.
“covert operations against the dictatorship”
“covert plans to sell arms”
synonyms: secret, furtive, clandestine, surreptitious

Question 2

culpable

Answer 2

deserving blame
“sometimes you’re just as culpable when you watch something as when you actually participate”
synonyms: guilty, at fault

Question 3

censure

Answer 3

express severe disapproval of (someone or something), typically in a formal statement.
“a judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct”
“angry delegates offered a resolution of censure against the offenders”
synonyms: condemnation, criticism, attack, abuse

Question 4

cloy

Answer 4

disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment
“a romantic, rather cloying story”
synonyms: sickly, syrupy, oversweet

Question 5

conglomeration

Answer 5

a number of different things, parts or items that are grouped together; collection.
“a loose conglomeration of pieces”

Question 6

convoluted

Answer 6

(especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow.
“its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions”
synonyms: complicated, complex

Question 7

delude

Answer 7

impose a misleading belief upon (someone)
“too many theorists have deluded the public”
synonyms: mislead, deceive, fool

Question 9

duress

Answer 9

threats, violence, constraints, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better judgment.
“confessions extracted under duress”
synonyms: coercion, compulsion, force

Question 10

defamation

Answer 10

the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel
“she sued him for defamation”

Question 11

diatribe

Answer 11

a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
“a diatribe against the Roman Catholic Church”
synonyms: onslaught, attack

Question 12

fastidious

Answer 12

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
“he chooses his words with fastidious care”
synonyms: meticulous, perfectionist

Question 13

fulmination

Answer 13

an expression of vehement protest.
“the fulminations of media moralists”
synonyms: protest, objection, complaint, rant, tirade, diatribe

Question 14

furtive

Answer 14

attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive
“they spent a furtive day together”
synonyms: secretive, secret, surreptitious

Question 15

harangue

Answer 15

a lengthy and aggressive speech

synonyms: tirade, diatribe, lecture, attack

Question 17

mores

Answer 17

the essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community
“an offense against social mores”
synonyms: customs, ways

Question 18

inditement

Answer 18

1. a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
   “an indictment for conspiracy”
   the action of indicting or being indicted.
   “the indictment of twelve people who had imported cocaine”
2. a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad and deserves to be condemned.
   “these rapidly escalating crime figures are an indictment of our society”

Question 19

plaintive

Answer 19

sounding sad and mournful; expressing sorrow
“a plaintive cry”
synonyms: mournful, sad

Question 19

invective

Answer 19

noun: invective
insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.
“he let out a stream of invective”
“invective against the English”
synonyms: abuse, insults, expletives, curses

Question 20

posit

Answer 20

1. base something on the truth of (a particular assumption)
   “these plots are posited on a false premise about women’s nature as inferior”
2. put in position; place
   “the professor posits Cohen in his second category of poets”

Question 21

punitive

Answer 21

inflicting or intended as punishment.
“he called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc”
synonyms: penal, disciplinary, corrective

Question 22

obloquy

Answer 22

strong public criticism or verbal abuse
“he endured years of contempt and obloquy”
synonyms: condemnation, abuse, criticism, censure, insults

Question 24

tirade

Answer 24

a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.
“a tirade of abuse”
synonyms: rant, onslaught, attack

Question 24

polemic

Answer 24

a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something
“his polemic against the cultural relativism of the sixties”
synonyms: diatribe, rant, tirade, attack, harangue, criticism, admonition

Question 24

portent

Answer 24

a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen
“they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death”
synonyms: omen, sign, forewarning

Question 24

stodgy

Answer 24

dull and uninspired
“some of the material is rather stodgy and top-heavy with facts”
synonyms: boring, dull, uninteresting, turgid