Semester Test

Question 1

The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

Answer 1

Camaraderie

Question 2

Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct ( especially in religious matters)

Answer 2

Conformist

Question 3

A shelter from danger or hardship

A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Answer 3

Asylum

Question 4

A judgment involving condemnation; the act of blaming or condemning sternly

Answer 4

Censure

Question 5

A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

Answer 5

Demagogue

Question 6

A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

Answer 6

Digression

Question 7

The state of being held in low esteem

Answer 7

Discredit

Question 8

Tending to move apart in different directions

Answer 8

Divergent

Question 9

Understanding and entering into another’s feelings

Answer 9

Empathy

Question 10

To increase or improve in value, quality, desirability, or attractiveness

Answer 10

Enhance

Question 11

Passing quickly out of sight; tending to vanish like vapor

Answer 11

Evanscent

Question 12

Serving as a model; representing the best of its kind; worthy of imitation

Answer 12

Exemplary

Question 13

Partially excusing or justifying

Answer 13

Extentuating

Question 14

Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse

Answer 14

Hackneyed

Question 15

A tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

Answer 15

Hypothesis

Question 16

Attribute or credit to

Answer 16

Impute

Question 17

Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

Answer 17

Intuitive

Question 18

A feeling of extreme joy

Answer 18

Jubilation

Question 19

Someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist’s employer

Answer 19

Lobbyist

Question 20

Marked by blithe unconcern

Answer 20

Nonchalant

Question 21

Rich and superior in quality

Answer 21

Opulent

Question 22

Characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)

Answer 22

Precocious

Question 23

Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

Answer 23

Pretentious

Question 24

Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

Answer 24

Provocative

Question 25

The reestablishing of cordial relations

Answer 25

Reconciliation

Question 26

Capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture; tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

Answer 26

Resilient

Question 27

A feeling of profound respect for someone or something

Answer 27

Reverence

Question 28

Said or done without having been planned or written in advance

Answer 28

Spontaneous

Question 29

Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

Answer 29

Submissive

Question 30

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Answer 30

Substantiate

Question 31

To put down by authority or force; to subdue
To keep from public knowledge; to keep secret
To stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of
To exclude from consciousness
To keep from giving vent to; to restrain from a usual course or action
To inhibit the growth or development of

Answer 31

Suppress

Question 32

Stubbornly unyielding

Answer 32

Tenacious

Question 33

Show to be right by providing justification or proof

Answer 33

Vindicate