Picnic Vocab

Question 1

Anachronistic

Answer 1

something out of place in time or space

Question 2

Hegemony

Answer 2

a situation in which an organisation/country/group has more power/control/importance than others

Question 3

Inscrutable

Answer 3

impossible to understand or fully penetrate

Question 4

Latent

Answer 4

something that is hidden and not obvious, but may develop or become revealed in the future

Question 5

Mimicry

Answer 5

action of mimicking

Question 6

Sardonic

Answer 6

humorously critical, or comically biting

Question 7

Soporific

Answer 7

something that makes one feel sleepy or drowsy

Question 8

Austerity

Answer 8

strict, severe, self-denying

Question 9

carnal

Answer 9

physical and sexual needs

Question 10

efface

Answer 10

to efface something is destroy or remove it so that it cannot be seen anymore

Question 11

factitious

Answer 11

artificial rather than natural

Question 12

moribund

Answer 12

in very bad condition, or the point of dying

Question 13

pernicious

Answer 13

something is very harmful, an implication of evil or malice

Question 14

purport (to)

Answer 14

they claim

Question 15

adumbrate

Answer 15

to outline or foreshadow something

Question 16

bastion

Answer 16

if a system is described as a bastion of (something), it is very important and effective at defending it

Question 17

denigrate

Answer 17

to criticise unfairly or insult

Question 18

denude

Answer 18

to take something away from someone

Question 19

extol

Answer 19

praise enthusiastically

Question 20

illusory

Answer 20

although it may seem true, it is in fact false/impossible

Question 21

ostensibly

Answer 21

apparently or seemingly

Question 22

Epistolary

Answer 22

a literary work in letter form

Question 23

Expository

Answer 23

intended to explain or describe something

Question 24

Intimating

Answer 24

to state or make known

Question 25

Polysyllabic

Answer 25

word using many syllables

Question 26

Ambiguity

Answer 26

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation

Question 27

Omniscient

Answer 27

knowing everything

Question 28

Curtailing

Answer 28

reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on, to deprive

Question 29

circumlocutory

Answer 29

using many words when fewer could be used, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague/ long-winded

Question 30

Emotive aposiopesis

Answer 30

sudden breaks in speech