November 2020

Question 1

Gauche

Answer 1

lacking social experience or grace

Question 2

jalopy

Answer 2

a dilapidated vehicle, especially cars

Question 3

atrophy

Answer 3

n. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use.
n. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution.
intransitive verb To cause to wither or deteriorate; affect with atrophy.

Question 4

apogee

Answer 4

The point in an orbit around the planet Earth where the orbiting body is farthest from the planet.

Question 5

Yahweh

Answer 5

God, especially in Hebrew

Question 6

Rod of Asclepius

Answer 6

Serpent-entwined rod associated with medicine

Question 7

kayfabe

Answer 7

in wrestling, the practice of trying to make people believe that wrestlers are particular characters, when in fact they are only pretending to be those characters:

Question 8

ambrosia

Answer 8

food of gods thought to confer immortality

Question 9

caltrop

Answer 9

A caltrop is an area denial weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base.
Fun fact: they were particularly effective on camels, as they have soft feet.

Question 10

solipsism

Answer 10

the view that the self is the only thing that can be known or verified/only the self is the reality.

Question 11

Empirio-criticisim

Answer 11

Empirio-criticism is the term for the rigorously positivist and radically empiricist philosophy established by the German philosopher Richard Avenarius and further developed by Mach, which claims that all we can know is our sensations and that knowledge should be confined to pure experience.

Question 12

Bodhisattva

Answer 12

any person on the path towards Buddahood

Question 13

ecclesiastical

Answer 13

1. Of or relating to a church, especially as an organized institution.
2. Appropriate to a church or to use in a church:
   ecclesiastical architecture; ecclesiastical robes.
   Sakral auf Deutsch

Question 14

pejorative

Answer 14

belittling; disparaging

Question 15

preclude

Answer 15

: to make impossible by necessary consequence: rule out in advance

Question 16

archaic

Answer 16

antiquated, out of dat

Question 17

amour propre

Answer 17

self-esteem, self-love

Question 18

complacency

Answer 18

: self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies

Question 19

victual

Answer 19

food usable by people; provisions

Question 20

grandiloquence

Answer 20

a lofty, extravagantly colourful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language

Question 21

anathema

Answer 21

someone or something intensely disliked or loathed —usually used as a predicate nominative
… this notion was anathema to most of his countrymen.