Unit 2 Lesson 13

Question 0

Bicameral

Answer 0

Composed of two houses, chambers or branches

Question 1

Atonement

Answer 1

Amends for wrong-doing; expiation

Question 2

Decalogue

Answer 2

The Ten Commandments

Question 3

Decimate

Answer 3

To destroy a great number or proportion of.

Question 4

Dichotomy

Answer 4

Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions.

Question 5

Double-think

Answer 5

The belief in two contradictory ideas at the same time.

Question 6

Millennium

Answer 6

A span of a thousand years; a period of gEneral righteousness and happiness, especially in the indefinite future.

Question 7

Nihilism

Answer 7

Total rejection of established laws and institutions; total destructiveness toward the world and oneself.

Question 8

Penultimate

Answer 8

Next to last

Question 9

Primeval

Answer 9

Original; belonging to the first or earliest ages.

Question 10

Protocol

Answer 10

Forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of states; e first copy of a treaty or document

Question 11

Quatrain

Answer 11

A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes

Question 12

Quintessence

Answer 12

The most perfect embodiment of something; the purest or most typical instance.

Question 13

Tessellated

Answer 13

Like a mosaic; checkered

Question 14

Untrammeled

Answer 14

Urn hampered; unrestrained