Kotoha Nomura Round 1

Question 1

seduce

Answer 1

to persuade subjects to do something undersirable

Question 2

vacillate

Answer 2

to keep changing your opinion and not able to decide

Question 3

extrapolate

Answer 3

to estimate something by using the facts that you have now

Question 4

fester

Answer 4

to become badly infected or rotten

Question 5

frown

Answer 5

to look displeased with your eyebrows twitched

Question 6

vex

Answer 6

to annoy or irritate subject

Question 7

amnesia

Answer 7

a partial or total loss of memory

Question 8

camaraderie

Answer 8

a spirit of friendship

Question 9

epistle

Answer 9

a long, serious letter

Question 10

sway

Answer 10

power or influence over subject

Question 11

chagrin

Answer 11

a feeling of annoyance, marched by disappointment

Question 12

seismology

Answer 12

the scientific study of earthquakes

Question 13

zest

Answer 13

the highest point in the sky

Question 14

irksome

Answer 14

annoying or irritating

Question 15

ecclesiastical

Answer 15

if the church or the clergy

Question 16

parisomonious

Answer 16

extremely unwilling to spend money

Question 17

frivolous

Answer 17

not having any serious purpose or value

Question 18

abdomen

Answer 18

the part of the body of a vertebrate containing the digestive and reproductive organs

Question 19

abiogenesis

Answer 19

the original evolution of life or living organisms from inorganic or inanimate substance

Question 20

anabolism

Answer 20

the synthesis of complex molecules in living organisms from simpler ones together with the storage of energy

Question 21

bile

Answer 21

a bitter greenish brown alkaline fluid which aids defection and is secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder

Question 22

chitin

Answer 22

a fibrous substance consisting of polysaccharides, which is the major constituent in exoskeleton of arthropods and the cell walls of fungi.

Question 23

commensalism

Answer 23

An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives mother benefits not harm

Question 24

gonad

Answer 24

The part of the reproductive system that produces and releases eggs or sperm

Question 25

Hermaphroditic

Answer 25

An organism having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or as the natural condition

Question 26

Loam

Answer 26

A fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus

Question 27

Pseudopod

Answer 27

A temporary growth on a cell that allows it to be mobile, almost like a little foot

Question 28

Saprophyte

Answer 28

An organism, especially a fungus or bacterium, that lives on and gets its nourishment from dead organisms or decaying organic material

Question 29

Univalve

Answer 29

Having one valve or shell

Question 30

Xylem

Answer 30

The vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and also helps to form the woody