New Words 7

Question 1

Chary

Answer 1

Wary

Question 2

Execrate

Answer 2

to shit on someone; to curse and hiss at someone.

Cleveland execrated lebron after he left

Question 3

Exegesis

Answer 3

“critical interpretation of a scholarly work”

The Bible is fertile ground for exegesis: over past centuries innumerable interpretations

Question 4

Insufferable

Answer 4

sth. or sb. that you cant tolerate

Question 5

Impertinent

Answer 5

Not showing proper respect

Question 6

Inflammable (2)

Answer 6

1. Flammable
2. Incendiary, as in a comment, etc

Question 7

Disinterested

Answer 7

unbiased, neutral

Question 8

**Sententious **

Answer 8

to be moralizing; usually in a pompous

*The old man putting his nose up in the air at the group of adolescents intoned sententiously “Youth is wasted on the young” *

Question 9

Propitiate

Answer 9

Appease; placate

Question 10

Tendentious

Answer 10

biased; likely to espouse a controversial view

Most of us despite proclamations to the contrary are tendentious on many of today’s pressing issues

Question 11

Limpid

Answer 11

limpid prose; clear, accessible

Question 12

Feckless

Answer 12

lazy and irresponsible

Question 13

Restive

Answer 13

**Restless **

Question 14

Repine

Answer 14

complain or fret oversomething

Question 15

Remiss

Answer 15

negligent in one’s duties;

*I’d be remiss if I didnt offer you some tea *

Question 16

Immanent

Answer 16

existing within;inherent in; restricted to the mind, subjective

Personally, I could have just about accepted some kind of immanent spirit of humanity trying to move the pieces around, or even some kind of overmind, just about anything except god and angels.

Question 17

Nativism

Answer 17

A policy favoring native born persons over immigrants

Question 18

Precept

Answer 18

A rule or a principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct;

Question 19

**Sublimate **

Answer 19

**to modify the natural expression (of a primitive, instinctual impulse) in a socially acceptable manner. **

Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or make them “sublimate” their drive for power into some harmless hobby.

Question 20

**Abjure **

Answer 20

promise or swear to give up;

to renounce upon an oath;

to promise or swear;

Question 21

**Acculturation **

Answer 21

**A. The modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture. **

**B. The process by which the culture of a particular society is instilled in a human from infancy onward. **

Question 22

Addlepated

Answer 22

Confused; stupid; flustered

Question 23

Agog

Answer 23

**Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager. **

Now Washington is agog in a new president with big plans.

Question 24

Agonistic

Answer 24

**Struggling for effect; argumentative combative; **

Rush Limbaugh in my honest opinion I believe that you are just an agonistic pig, who do not have a heart.

Question 25

Akimbo

Answer 25

In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward:

children standing akimbo by the fence.

Question 26

Aleatory

Answer 26

Dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome:

an aleatory contract between an oil prospector and a landowner.

Question 27

Amity

Answer 27

**Peaceful relations, as between nations’ friendship **

Question 28

Adjuvant

Answer 28

A thing which aids or assits; an auxiliary;

One who helps or facilitates

An adjuvant is a vaccine component that boosts the immune response to the vaccine.

Question 29

Anomie

Answer 29

Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values;

When it came to alienation, or what he preferred to call anomie, Durkheim was convinced that such shiftlessness—moral isolation, in effect—was caused by an absence of conventions and a rejection of the society that instituted them.

Question 30

Analeptic

Answer 30

Restorative or stimulating, as a drug or stimulant

Cool and soothing, the analeptic juice quickly took away the stinging.

Question 31

Apologia

Answer 31

a formal defense or justification; a written defense of a position or a belief

Question 32

Apologist

Answer 32

An apologist is somebody that defends the actions of another.

Question 33

Apposed

Answer 33

** To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
transitive v. To place in juxtaposition or proximit**y.

Question 35

Apollonian

Answer 35

clear, harmonious, and restrained

Christy Mathewson was an apollonian figure who never drank or cursed, wore a cape when he entered the field at the Polo Grounds, and, beginning in 1903, won at least twenty games in twelve consecutive years.

Question 36

Bedaubing

Answer 36

smearing or daubing w/ a sticky substance

Question 37

Despoiling

Answer 37

stealing or plundering

Question 38

Mawkish

Answer 38

cloying, or sickeningly sentimental

Question 39

Notional

Answer 39

speculative & foolish

Question 40

Rhapsodize

Answer 40

talk w/ extravagant enthusiasm

Question 41

Palter

Answer 41

to be deliberately unclear, to equivocate

Question 42

Apprising

Answer 42

advising

Question 43

Abase

Answer 43

to debase; degrading

Question 44

**Refractory **

Answer 44

stubbornly resistant to control

Question 45

Disconsolate

Answer 45

‘gloomy’

Question 46

Bonhomie

Answer 46

affability; likeability

Question 47

Browbeating

Answer 47

“bullying”

Question 48

Torpor

Answer 48

apathy or lethargy

Question 49

Noisome

Answer 49

noxious, harmful, or dangerous

Question 50

**Nugatory **

Answer 50

of little value; inconsequentiall w/ out effectiveness

Question 51

Perspicacity

Answer 51

Acumen

Question 52

Abnegation

Answer 52

to give up or renounce

Question 53

Beneficent

Answer 53

benevolent, Eleemosynary (charitable)

Question 54

Devious

Answer 54

indirect; shifty or crooked