Lesson 4 + Extra (Personal Relationships)

Question 1

puerile

Answer 1

adj. childish; immature

Question 2

orthopedics

Answer 2

n. a branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement

Question 3

pedagogue

Answer 3

n. a teacher

Question 4

pedant

Answer 4

n. a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
n. a scholarly show-off

Question 5

entity

Answer 5

n. something that has a real or independent existence

Question 6

nonentity

Answer 6

n. a person or thing of no importance

n. something that does not exist or exists only in imagination

Question 7

essence

Answer 7

n. the basic element; the identifying characteristic
n. a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug
n. a perfume

Question 8

moribund

Answer 8

adj. about to die or end

Question 9

morfity

Answer 9

v. to shame

v. to discipline oneself by denial

Question 10

postmortem

Answer 10

n. an examination to determine the cause of death by poison

n. an analysis of something that is over

Question 11

euthanasia

Answer 11

n. the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing

Question 12

innate

Answer 12

adj. possessed at birth; inborn

Question 13

naive

Answer 13

adj. childlike; unsophisticated

adj. gullible

Question 14

nascent

Answer 14

adj. emerging; coming into existence

Question 15

renaissance

Answer 15

n. a rebirth; a renewal

n. a revival of humanism in the 14th century to the 16th century Europe

Question 16

amortize

Answer 16

v. to liquidate or extinguish (esp. a periodic payment like debt)
v. to convey to a corporation or church group

Question 17

cognate

Answer 17

adj. related by birth; of the same parentage, descent, etc.

adj. descended or borrowed from the same earlier form (language)

Question 18

essential

Answer 18

adj. absolutely necessary; indispensable

adj. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing

Question 19

in absentia

Answer 19

adv./perp. in absence

Question 20

mortgage

Answer 20

n. a conveyance of property to a creditor as security, as for the repayment of money

Question 21

mortuary

Answer 21

n. a funeral home

Question 22

natal

Answer 22

adj. of or pertaining to one’s birth

adj. presiding over or affecting one at birth

Question 23

native

Answer 23

n. a person born in a particular place or country
adj. being the place/environment where a thing/person came into being
adj. belonging to a person by birth or a thing by nature; inherent

Question 24

neonatal

Answer 24

adj. of or pertaining to newborn children

Question 25

pediatrics

Answer 25

n. the science dealing with the medical and hygienic care of children or with the diseases of children

Question 26

quintessential

Answer 26

adj. being the most perfect embodiment of something

Question 27

renascence

Answer 27

n. rebirth; the springing again into being or vigor

Question 28

represent

Answer 28

v. to serve, express, designate, stand for, denote, or symbolize
v. to substitute
v. to exemplify

Question 29

rigor mortis

Answer 29

n. the stiffening of the body after death