Simple Vocabulary

Question 1

Avant-Garde

Answer 1

People or works that are new or experimental

Question 2

Pastiche

Answer 2

A mixture; compilation

Question 3

Bumf

Answer 3

Reading Materials

Question 4

Earworm

Answer 4

Catchy piece of music that repeats itself even when not being listened to at that moment in time.

Question 5

Earcon

Answer 5

A brief. structures. abstract sound pattern used to represent a specific item or event.

Question 6

Cacophony

Answer 6

A harsh discordant, meaningless mixture of sounds

Question 7

Sacrosanct

Answer 7

Extremely valuable and important

Question 8

Atavistic

Answer 8

Primitive feelings or behavior

Question 9

Harbinger

Answer 9

A thing or person that signals the approach of another.

Question 10

Odalisque

Answer 10

A female servant in a Turkish harem

Question 11

Orthodoxy

Answer 11

An accepted view, belief, about something.

Question 12

Erudite

Answer 12

Possession of or showing great knowledge

Question 13

Pompus

Answer 13

Grand, magnificent, self-important, ostentatious

Question 14

Dissumlate

Answer 14

To hide your thoughts, feelings, or character

Question 15

Boondoggle

Answer 15

A wasteful, unnecessary or fraudulent venture or plan

Question 16

Gloat

Answer 16

To look or think excessively smug

Question 17

Faux pas

Answer 17

Social Blunder

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

A similarity between two things

Question 19

Malaise

Answer 19

A general sense of unease or weakness

Question 20

Paradox

Answer 20

A person or thing that combines contradictory features

Question 21

Accolade

Answer 21

An award or privilege