Internet Words I

Question 1

Affectless

Answer 1

Having or showing no emotion; unfeeling: “Her voice, … low and affectless, yielded as little as possible”

Question 2

Affinity

Answer 2

a. A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship: a special affinity with animals; a cultural affinity for the automobile.
b. A natural tendency or ability to use or do something: an affinity with languages; an affinity for making money.
c. A natural compatibility of one thing with another: “the affinity of pork and shellfish” (Alison Arnett).

Question 3

Affluent

Answer 3

Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich.

Question 4

Agglomerated

Answer 4

Gathered into a rounded mass.

Question 5

Aggrieve

Answer 5

1. To distress; afflict.

2. To inflict an injury or injuries on.

Question 6

Aghast

Answer 6

Struck by shock, terror, or amazement.

Question 7

Agrarian

Answer 7

1. Relating to the cultivation of land; agricultural: an agrarian economy.
2. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure: agrarian reform.

Question 8

Akimbo

Answer 8

with hand on hip and elbow bent outward

Question 9

Albatross

Answer 9

a. A source of worry or distress.

b. An obstacle to success.

Question 10

Alienation

Answer 10

2. Emotional isolation or dissociation.

3. a turning away; estrangement

Question 11

Allegory

Answer 11

a. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
b. A story, picture, or play employing such representation.

Question 12

Alluring

Answer 12

To attract with something desirable;

Question 13

Amalgamate

Answer 13

To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite.

Question 14

Amateurs

Answer 14

One who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.

Question 15

Ameliorate

Answer 15

To make or become better; improve:

Question 16

Amenable

Answer 16

ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable:

Question 17

Amended

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1. To change for the better; improve:

Question 18

Amity

Answer 18

Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship.

Question 19

Amorality

Answer 19

2. Lacking moral sensibility; not caring about right and wrong.

Question 20

Amorphous

Answer 20

1. Lacking physical form or shape.

Question 21

Amortized

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to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund.

Question 22

Anachronistic

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1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

Question 23

Anarchist

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1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.
2. Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.

Question 24

Anathema

Answer 24

a person or thing detested or loathed:

Question 25

Anemic

Answer 25

Relating to or suffering from anemia.

Question 26

Annotated

Answer 26

To furnish (a literary work) with critical commentary or explanatory notes; gloss.

Question 27

Anomalies

Answer 27

1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.

Question 28

Anomalous

Answer 28

. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.

Question 29

Anomaly

Answer 29

1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.

Question 30

Anomie

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1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.

Question 31

Antedated

Answer 31

to be of older date than; precede in time:

The Peruvian empire antedates the Mexican empire.

Question 32

Antediluvian

Answer 32

of or belonging to the period before the Flood. Gen. 7, 8.

Question 33

Antipathy

Answer 33

1. a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
2. an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
3. an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.

Question 34

Antiquated

Answer 34

continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned:

Question 35

Antithetical to

Answer 35

directly opposed or contrasted; opposite.

Question 36

Apathetic

Answer 36

1. Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
2. Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.

Question 37

Apathy

Answer 37

1. Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
2. Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.

Question 38

Ape (v.)

Answer 38

to imitate

Question 39

Apex

Answer 39

a. The highest point of a structure, object, or geometric figure:

Question 40

Aphorism

Answer 40

a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).

Question 41

Apocalyptic

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1. Relating to or predicting the end of the world, especially as described in the Bible or another religious text.

Question 42

Apocrypha

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Writings, statements, etc., of doubtful authorship or authenticity.

Question 43

Apocryphal

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of doubtful authorship or authenticity.

Question 44

Apologia

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an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc.

Question 45

Apologist

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a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.

Question 46

Appease

Answer 46

to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe:

Question 47

Appellations

Answer 47

A name, title, or designation.

Question 48

Approbation

Answer 48

official approval or sanction.

Question 49

Appropriate (v.)

Answer 49

To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission:

Question 50

Aptitudes

Answer 50

capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: