Lessons 1-2

Question 1

acolyte

Answer 1

n. person who assists in some religious services by carrying out minor duties; one who attends or assists, a follower

Question 2

bibulous

Answer 2

adj. given to the consumption of alcoholic drinks; highly absorbent

Question 3

coalesce

Answer 3

v.grow together; unite to form a whole

Question 4

covert

Answer 4

adj. not openly acknowledged; secret

Question 5

declaim

Answer 5

v. recite something in the style of a public speech; speak in a loud thematic way

Question 6

delineate

Answer 6

v. draw an outline of; represent by drawing

Question 7

demagogue

Answer 7

n. leader who seeks power by appealing to people’s emotions and prejudices and by making false claims and promises

Question 8

encomium

Answer 8

n. (plural; encomiums or encomia) expression of warm and enthusiastic praise; tribute

Question 9

obdurate

Answer 9

adj. resistant to persuasion; inflexible; persistent in wrongdoing

Question 10

prescience

Answer 10

n. foresight; knowledge beforehand of events

Question 11

protagonist

Answer 11

n. the chief character in a drama or story

Question 12

sedulous

Answer 12

adj. completed with careful perseverance; diligent

Question 13

trenchant

Answer 13

adj. expressed with vigor and penetrating insight; keenly perceptive

Question 14

utopia

Answer 14

n. place or state of perfect social and political conditions

Question 15

valedictory

Answer 15

n. farewell address, especially one given at a graduation ceremony
adj. of or relating to such a farewell address

Question 16

absolve

Answer 16

v. clear guilt, to free from a promise or responsibility

Question 17

adumbrate

Answer 17

v. foreshadow in an indirect way; outline in a sketchy way; partially discuss

Question 18

apothegm

Answer 18

n. short, instructive saying

Question 19

aspersion

Answer 19

n. defamatory expression; slander

Question 20

coadjutor

Answer 20

n. one who works with another, usually in a subordinate position; an assistant

Question 21

congenital

Answer 21

adj. existing at or dating from birth; being an essential characteristic

Question 22

élan

Answer 22

n. lively spirit with a distinctive style

Question 23

germane

Answer 23

adj. pertinent and fitting

Question 24

hiatus

Answer 24

n. interrupting or gap in space, continuity, or time

Question 25

immure

Answer 25

v. confine within or as if within walls; to imprison

Question 26

ineluctable

Answer 26

adj. not to be avoided or changed; inevitable

Question 27

internecine

Answer 27

adj. marked by slaughter; mutually destructive; relating to conflict within a group

Question 28

invoke

Answer 28

v. appeal to earnestly; cite in justification

Question 29

prototype

Answer 29

n. person or thing that serves as an example of its kinds; an original

Question 30

quadrennial

Answer 30

adj. occurring every four years; lasting four years