Session 19 . Vocab

Question 1

Spartan

Answer 1

characterised by a lack of comfort or luxury (adj)

Question 2

Tartan

Answer 2

A cloth of patterned lines and squares (Scottish)

Question 3

Urban

Answer 3

Relating to a town or city

Question 4

Rural

Answer 4

Relating to the countryside

Question 5

Testament

Answer 5

The part of a person’s will that relates to what should be done with their personal property

Something that is evidence that a specific fact or event happened

A section of the Bible (2 sections: “old” and “new”)

Question 6

Sacrament

Answer 6

A religious ceremony or ritual

Question 7

Endowment

Answer 7

The money or property inherited by someone

Question 8

Confer

Answer 8

To discuss or exchange ideas and opinions

Question 9

Preach

Answer 9

To deliver a religious sermon, or to give moral advice to someone (in a pompous way)

Question 10

Demean

Answer 10

To do something that disrespects someone or something

Question 11

Deplete

Answer 11

To use up resources / supplies

Question 12

Gore

Answer 12

Blood that has been shed - usually as a result of violence

Question 13

Goad

Answer 13

To provoke or annoy someone in a way that makes them react / fight back

Question 14

Calamitous

Answer 14

Disastrous

Question 15

Undermine

Answer 15

To do something to lessen the effectiveness or power of something or of someone’s efforts

To dig beneath a building to make it collapse

Question 16

Sanitary

Answer 16

Hygienic and clean

Question 17

Embellished

Answer 17

To make something more attractive by adding decoration

Question 18

Pledge

Answer 18

A solemn promise

A promise of a donation to charity

Question 19

Condemn

Answer 19

To strongly disapprove of something

To declare something as being unusable for its purpose

Question 20

Apprehend

Answer 20

To arrest someone for a crime

To understand

Question 21

Feud

Answer 21

A prolonged and bitter quarrel

Question 22

Variance

Answer 22

A state of disagreement (between two opinions or two documents)

Question 23

Subside

Answer 23

To become less intense or severe (e.g. pain subsiding)

To go lower (when talking about the level of water, say in a flood, or the level of a building if it is sinking into the ground)

Question 24

Plush

Answer 24

Luxurious (adj)

Question 25

Ashen

Answer 25

Pale (describing someone’s face, usually when they are scared or ill)

Question 26

Bedazzle

Answer 26

To decorate (using sequins and glitter)

To greatly impress someone

Question 27

Sincerity

Answer 27

Being truthful and straightforward (i.e. the absence of deceit)

Question 28

Amnesty

Answer 28

An official pardon for people who may have committed a crime (i.e. letting them off)

Question 29

Travesty

Answer 29

A false representation of something (a misrepresentation)

Question 30

Infernal

Answer 30

Irritating (used for emphasis, e.g. someone being an infernal nuisance)

Relating to hell or the underworld (adj)

Question 31

Finite

Answer 31

Limited in size or extent (i.e. not infinite)

Question 32

Tedious

Answer 32

Boring

Question 33

Antidote

Answer 33

A medicine that is given to counteract a specific poison

Question 34

Antic

Answer 34

An attention-seeking, playful or funny act or action

Question 35

Antibody

Answer 35

A protein in the blood that helps fight diseases