Lesson 2

Question 1

Donnybrook

Answer 1

N. a flight; an uproar

Question 2

interlocutor

Answer 2

N. Someone who participates in a conversation

Question 3

carte blanche

Answer 3

N. boundless authority unlimited power to act

Question 4

rife

Answer 4

adj. abundant; prevalent

Question 5

contemptuous

Answer 5

adj. haughty; scornful

Question 6

stygian

Answer 6

adj. dank and forbidding

Question 7

vestige

Answer 7

N. a trace of evidence of something that once existed

Question 8

nomenclature

Answer 8

N. a technical name or naming system in an art or science

Question 9

incantation

Answer 9

n. a chant; a recited magical spell

Question 10

metamorphosis

Answer 10

n. a transformation or dramatic change

Question 11

nonchalant

Answer 11

adj. unconcerned; indiffernet

Question 12

procrustean

Answer 12

adj. marked by a disregard for individual differences or circumstance

Question 13

sophistry

Answer 13

adj. a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument

Question 14

cosmopolitan

Answer 14

adj. worldly; sophisticated

Question 15

brigand

Answer 15

n. a robber or bandit