NEO 58

Question 1

incorporate

Answer 1

to include something within something else:
example: Porcelain is a white ceramic that originated in China and that incorporates kaolin clay

Question 2

mystify

Answer 2

to confuse someone by being or doing something very strange or impossible to explain:
example: Europeans were delighted and mystified by their lightness, hardness,
and translucence (allowing light to pass through).

Question 3

translucence

Answer 3

allowing light to pass through
example: Europeans were delighted and mystified by their lightness, hardness,
and translucence (allowing light to pass through)

Question 4

susceptible

Answer 4

easily influenced or harmed by something:
example1: Being heavy and not susceptible to water damage,
example2: population concentration in villages and towns would have made people more
susceptible to disease

Question 5

dispel

Answer 5

to remove fears, doubts, and false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary:
example: some of the mystery surrounding its production was dispelled.

Question 6

wares

Answer 6

goods
example: Although Asian wares had much to recommend to seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Europeans,

Question 7

embellish

Answer 7

to make something more beautiful by adding something to it:
example: Finally, they came embellished with painted patterns in blue, or with brightly enameled decoration, the subjects and scenes of which must have appeared fascinating to Western eyes.

Question 8

enamel

Answer 8

to cover something with enamel
enamel: a type of paint that forms a shiny surface when dry
example: Finally, they came embellished with painted patterns in blue, or with brightly enameled decoration, the subjects and scenes of which must have appeared fascinating to Western eyes.

Question 9

exotic

Answer 9

foreign
example: The late-seventeenth-century taste for such exotic porcelain wares was part of a wider fashion that embraced Asian goods in other materials, including Chinese and Japanese lacquerware

Question 10

lacquerware

Answer 10

objects made from wood or metal that has a hard, shiny, decorative surface from having been painted with a special liquid called lacquer:
example: The late-seventeenth-century taste for such exotic porcelain wares was part of a wider fashion that embraced Asian goods in other materials, including Chinese and Japanese lacquerware

Question 11

calico

Answer 11

a heavy plain cloth made from cotton:
example: Like the Indian cotton cloth known as
calico

Question 12

census

Answer 12

a count for official purposes, especially one to count the number of people living in a country and to collect information about them:
example: most nations conduct periodic censuses to assess the present situation of their populations and to plan for the future.

Question 13

sporadic

Answer 13

happening sometimes; not regular or continuous:
example: population estimates and counts were sporadic and usually inaccurate

Question 14

speculative

Answer 14

based on a guess and not on information:
example: especially for non-literate societies, is a highly speculative exercise

Question 15

stratification

Answer 15

the fact that the different parts of something exist in or have been arranged into separate groups:
example: and increasing
social stratification within societies

Question 16

conquest

Answer 16

the act of conquering a country, area, or situation
example: decline of
American Indian populations after contact with Europeans, caused by disease, conquest, and social disruption.

Question 17

agrarian

Answer 17

relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming:
example: Most pre-modern agrarian economies were characterized