Persepolis Vocabulary

Question 1

place of safety or refuge

Answer 1

Asylum

Question 2

innovative or ahead of time

Answer 2

avant-garde

Question 3

war-like or aggressive

Answer 3

belligerent

Question 4

dead body or corpse

Answer 4

cadaver

Question 5

the slaughter of a great number of people

Answer 5

carnage

Question 6

conduct with secrecy

Answer 6

clandestine

Question 7

to comfort

Answer 7

console

Question 8

overthrow (usually military) of government

Answer 8

coup d’etat

Question 9

excessive indulgence

Answer 9

decadence

Question 10

immoral or corrupt person

Answer 10

degenerate

Question 11

relating to evil

Answer 11

diabolical

Question 12

of reasoning that arrives at truth by exchanging arguments

Answer 12

dialectic

Question 13

property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage

Answer 13

dowry

Question 14

crude image of a despised person

Answer 14

effigy

Question 15

extreme happiness

Answer 15

euphoria

Question 16

excessive supporters of religion or politics

Answer 16

fanatics

Question 17

to whip

Answer 17

flagellate

Question 18

characterized by a lack of seriousness or sense

Answer 18

frivolities

Question 19

independent militants who attack in small groups

Answer 19

guerillas

Question 20

someone associated with taking over the power of another country or leader

Answer 20

imperialists

Question 21

person who suffers or sacrifices for their religious or other beliefs

Answer 21

martyr

Question 22

marriage

Answer 22

nuptial

Question 23

required

Answer 23

obligatory

Question 24

empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC (modern Iran)

Answer 24

Persia

Question 25

working class people, commoners

Answer 25

poletariat

Question 26

forcible and illegitimate attempt to seize power

Answer 26

putsch

Question 27

government, generally imposed upon the people

Answer 27

regime

Question 28

form of government in which the people elect representatives to govern them and make laws

Answer 28

republic

Question 29

not pertaining to or connected with religion

Answer 29

secular

Question 30

title of the former monarch of Iran

Answer 30

Shah

Question 31

a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed

Answer 31

Shiite

Question 32

seeking to disrupt established system or order

Answer 32

subversive

Question 33

true or genuine

Answer 33

veritable

Question 34

wine maker

Answer 34

vintner