Honors Vocabulary 4

Question 1

panacea

Answer 1

a cure-all

Question 2

pandemic

Answer 2

an outbreak of a disease which spreads throughout all of the population

Question 3

pantheistic

Answer 3

the worship of all or many Gods

Question 4

omnipotent

Answer 4

all powerful

Question 5

omniscient

Answer 5

all knowing

Question 6

omnipresent

Answer 6

present in all places

Question 7

omnivorous

Answer 7

eating both plants and animals; consuming all things

Question 8

catholic

Answer 8

universal, relating to the “whole” or to most things

Question 9

holocaust

Answer 9

a great destruction, especially by fire; a tragedy that destroys the whole of something

Question 10

totalitarian

Answer 10

government where one person holds absolute control: having complete control over the whole government

Question 11

preclude

Answer 11

to prevent, to close off possibility of something

Question 12

recluse

Answer 12

a person who closes himself off from others, a hermit

Question 13

occlude

Answer 13

to close off or block

Question 14

inception

Answer 14

the beginning of something

Question 15

incipient

Answer 15

young, at the beginning or early stages

Question 16

nihilism

Answer 16

the rejection of religious or moral beliefs, the belief in nothing

Question 17

negate

Answer 17

to disprove, to deny with facts

Question 18

renegade

Answer 18

to deny one’s group and rebel

Question 19

vacuous

Answer 19

empty, especially of meaning or purpose

Question 20

aperture

Answer 20

an opening, especially one that admits light