Mountains Upon Mountains

Question 1

Iconoclast

Answer 1

a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.

Question 2

Antiretroviral

Answer 2

denoting or relating to a class of drugs that inhibit the activity of retroviruses such as HIV.

Question 3

Retrovirus

Answer 3

any of a family of RNA viruses that have an enzyme (reverse transcriptase) capable of making a complementary DNA copy of the viral RNA, which then is integrated into a host cell’s DNA. The family includes a number of significant pathogens, typically causing tumors or affecting the function of the immune system, e.g. HIV.

Question 4

Hortitorture

Answer 4

The cruel and unusual manipulation of plants to meet human desires or expectations. Usually in the form of pruning, staking, bending, or abandonment.

Question 5

Impregnable

Answer 5

unable to be defeated or destroyed, captured or broken into, unassailable.

Question 6

Epicurian

Answer 6

a disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

Question 7

Preponderant

Answer 7

: having superior weight, force, or influence. : having greater prevalence. preponderantly adverb.

Question 8

Perverse

Answer 8

(of a person or their actions) showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences. contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice

Question 9

Hermeneutics

Answer 9

the study of the methodological principles of interpretation (as of the Bible) : a method or principle of interpretation.

Question 10

Intramural

Answer 10

situated or done within the walls of a building.
taking place within a single educational institution.
forming part of normal university or college studies.

Question 11

Penology

Answer 11

1. the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects. 2. the study of the management of prisons.

Question 12

Apparat (apparatchik)

Answer 12

the administrative system of a communist party, especially in a communist country.

Question 13

Peripatetic

Answer 13

traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.

Question 14

Intractable

Answer 14

hard to control or deal with.

Question 15

Incipient

Answer 15

beginning to come into being or to become apparent.

Question 16

Facsimile

Answer 16

an exact copy, especially of written or printed material.

Question 17

Eschew

Answer 17

deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

Question 18

Emaciated

Answer 18

abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.

Question 19

Perfunctory

Answer 19

(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection.

Question 20

Apnea

Answer 20

temporary cessation (the fact or process of ending or being brought to an end) of breathing, especially during sleep.

Question 21

Erudite

Answer 21

having or showing great knowledge or learning (gained by studying or reading)

Question 22

Masochistic

Answer 22

deriving sexual gratification from one’s own pain or humiliation.
(in general use) enjoying an activity that appears to be painful or tedious.

Question 23

Xylem

Answer 23

the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

Question 24

Phloem

Answer 24

the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.

Question 25

Cotyledons

Answer 25

an embryonic (the part of a seed which develops into a plant) leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating ((of a seed or spore) begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy) seed.

Question 26

N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide)

Answer 26

an endogenous cannabinoid receptor ligand (a molecule that binds to another (usually larger) molecule), and related lipid molecules in the nervous tissues.