Terms

Question 1

Adjunct

Answer 1

Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity

Question 2

Bellwether

Answer 2

the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends

Question 3

Caterwaul

Answer 3

To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; a harsh or noisy cry; a racket

Question 4

Chimerical

Answer 4

absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible

Question 5

Effete

Answer 5

Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out-of-date

Question 6

fait accompli

Answer 6

An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action

Question 7

hidebound

Answer 7

narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stuborn and unthinkingly conservative

Question 8

Hierarchy

Answer 8

Any system or things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.

Question 9

Laissez-faire

Answer 9

A philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference, especially with individual freedom of choice and action

Question 10

Liturgy

Answer 10

A religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship

Question 11

Morass

Answer 11

A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand

Question 12

Noisome

Answer 12

Offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious

Question 13

Oblivious

Answer 13

Forgetful; unaware

Question 14

Poltroon

Answer 14

A base coward

Question 15

Proselyte

Answer 15

A convert; a disciple

Question 16

Quasi

Answer 16

Resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or complete

Question 17

raillery

Answer 17

Good-humored ridicule; teasing

Question 18

ribald

Answer 18

Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language

Question 19

Supine

Answer 19

Lying flat on one’s back’ listed or lethargic; apathetic or passive

Question 20

Vignette

Answer 20

A short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter