TFA Vocab Week 4

Question 1

Evangelist

Answer 1

A person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith, esp. by public preaching

Question 2

Excrement

Answer 2

Waste matter discharged from the bowels; feces

Question 3

Dialect

Answer 3

A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Question 4

Benevolent

Answer 4

1) Kind, kindly 2) charitable, nonprofit

Question 5

Derisive

Answer 5

1) Expressing contempt or ridicule 2) mocking, jeering, scoffing

Question 6

Enthrall

Answer 6

1) Capture the fascinated attention of 2) captivate, charm

Question 7

Persevere

Answer 7

1) Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success 2) persist, continue

Question 8

Miscreant

Answer 8

A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks a law or rule

Question 9

Degenerate

Answer 9

1) Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline 2) technical lacking some property, order, or distinctness of structure previously or usually present, in particular

Question 10

Impotent

Answer 10

1) Powerless, ineffective 2) Unable, incapable

Question 11

Taboo

Answer 11

A social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing

Question 12

Caste

Answer 12

Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status

Question 13

Emanation

Answer 13

An abstract but perceptible thing that issues or originate from a source

Question 14

Atonement

Answer 14

Reparation for a wrong or injury

Question 15

Blaspheme

Answer 15

Speak irreverently about God or sacred things

Question 16

Ostracize

Answer 16

Exclude (someone) from a society or group