Quarter 2

Question 1

Approbation

Answer 1

approval or praise

Question 2

Ephemeral

Answer 2

lasting for a very short time

Question 3

Hegemony

Answer 3

leadership or dominance, esp. by one country or social group over others.

Question 4

Lugubrious

Answer 4

looking or sounding sad and dismal.

Question 5

Nascent

Answer 5

(esp. of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

Question 6

Parsimony

Answer 6

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.

Question 7

Polemic

Answer 7

a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

Question 8

Quixotic

Answer 8

exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

Question 9

Sanctimonious

Answer 9

making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Question 10

Vitriolic

Answer 10

filled with bitter criticism or malice.

Question 11

Synecdoche (rhetoric)

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland’s baseball team”).

Question 12

Isocolon (rhetoric)

Answer 12

a type of parallelism with phrases of the same length. “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came; I saw; I conquered”) is one example.

Question 13

Metonymy (rhetoric)

Answer 13

the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example “suit “for business executive, or “the track” for horse racing.

Question 14

Epithet (rhetoric)

Answer 14

an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
“old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty.’”

Question 15

Allegory (rhetoric)

Answer 15

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.