Misc. 11

Question 1

misogynoir

Answer 1

Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against black women. misogyny directed towards black women where race and gender both play roles in bias. The term was coined by queer black feminist Moya Bailey, who created the term in 2010 as a grad student at Emory to address misogyny directed toward black women in American visual and popular culture.

Question 2

inward ear

Answer 2

A term often used by critics to denote the mental process enabling the silent reader to catch the rhythm, etc., which the reader’s interpretation would give the text in performance aloud.

Question 3

prevaricate

Answer 3

avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question

Question 4

cloture

Answer 4

a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote.
“’If you do not have the support of 60 Senators to invoke cloture and end a filibuster… you cannot pass such a deeming resolution in the Senate.’”

Question 5

egress

Answer 5

the action of going out of or leaving a place

“The government must ‘protect passenger safety by mandating minimum seat pitch standards to preclude ingress/egress and health issues.’”

Question 6

incubus

Answer 6

a cause of distress or anxiety

“The Japanese people, freed of the incubus of a war industry which by 1938 was absorbing 61 per cent of their national income, have a chance of recovering…”

Question 7

lugubrious

Answer 7

Looking or sounding sad and dismal

Question 8

supine

Answer 8

Failing to act as a result of moral weakness or indolence

“Last year Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, brought in a corporate-governance code which…requires hitherto supine institutional investors to keep a close eye on firms they invest in.”

Question 9

welter

Answer 9

a large number of items in no order; a confused mass

At the same time they are subjected to a welter of conflicting pressures—acting as spin-doctors and bean-counters as well as corporate strategists and auditors.”

Question 10

hypergolic

Answer 10

(of a rocket propellant) igniting spontaneously on mixing with another substance; igniting upon contact of components without external aid (such as a spark)

Question 11

vouchsafe

Answer 11

to tell or give something to someone; to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension:
Ex.:
“to vouchsafe a reply to a question” or “They vouchsafed his return to his own country.”

Question 12

apophenia

Answer 12

the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)

Question 13

soteriology

Answer 13

1.) the doctrine of salvation, often relating to Christ in Christian theology but not necessarily.
2.) the study of 1.)
The Greek “sōtēria” = salvation