Unit-01 PAC

Question 1

PAC

Answer 1

PAC is related to the Latin words for “agree” and “peace.” The Pacific Ocean–that is, the “Peaceful Ocean”–was named by Ferdinand Magellan because it seemed so calm after he had sailed through the storms near Cape Horn. (Magellan obviously had never witnessed a Pacific typhoon.)

Question 2

pacify

Answer 2

(1) To soothe anger or agitation. (2) To subdue by armed action.
It took the police hours to pacify the angry demonstrators.

Question 3

pacifist

Answer 3

A person opposed to war or violence, especially someone who refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds.

Her grandfather had fought in the Marines in Word War II, but in his later years he had become almost a pacifist, opposing every war for one reason or another.

Question 4

pact

Answer 4

An agreement between two or more people or groups; a treaty or formal agreement between nations to deals with a problem or to resolve a dispute.

The girls made a pact never to reveal what had happened on that terrifying night in the abandoned house.

Question 5

pace

Answer 5

Countrary to the opinion of.

She had only three husbands, pace some Hollywood historians who claim she had as many as six.