Unit 1

Question 0

The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse

Answer 0

Bellwether

Question 1

Something added to something else as useful or helpful but not essential

Answer 1

Adjunct

Question 2

To howl or screech like a car

Answer 2

Caterwaul

Question 3

Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible

Answer 3

Chimerical

Question 4

Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy

Answer 4

Effete

Question 5

An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action

Answer 5

Fait Accompli

Question 6

Narrow-minded and rigid

Answer 6

Hidebound

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Hierarchy

Question 8

Individual freedom of choice and action

Answer 8

Laissez-Faire

Question 9

Religious service or rite

Answer 9

Liturgy

Question 10

Patch if low, soft, wet ground; not quagmire

Answer 10

Morass

Question 11

Offensive or disturbing; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious

Answer 11

Noisome

Question 12

Forgetful; unaware

Answer 12

Oblivious

Question 13

A convert; a disciple

Answer 13

Proselyte

Question 14

Resembling but not actually being

Answer 14

Quasi

Question 15

Good-humored ridicule

Answer 15

Raillery

Question 16

Irreverently mocking

Answer 16

Ribald

Question 17

Lying flat on one’s back

Answer 17

Supine

Question 18

A base coward

Answer 18

Poltroon

Question 19

Short sketch

Answer 19

Vignette