Unit 5 (blight-charisma)

Question 1

blight

Answer 1

n. a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys

Question 2

blithe

Answer 2

adj. carefree; cheerful

Question 3

bourgeois

Answer 3

adj. middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional

Question 4

bovine

Answer 4

adj. cow related; cow like

Question 5

brevity

Answer 5

n. briefness

Question 6

broach

Answer 6

v. to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject

Question 7

bucolic

Answer 7

adj. charmingly rural; rustic; country like

Question 8

bureaucracy

Answer 8

n. a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any larger administrative system characterized by….

Question 9

burgeon

Answer 9

v. to expand; to flourish

Question 10

burlesque

Answer 10

n. a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation

Question 11

cacophony

Answer 11

n. harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds

Question 12

cadence

Answer 12

n. rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds

Question 13

cajole

Answer 13

v. to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn’t want to do

Question 14

callow

Answer 14

adj. immature

Question 15

candor

Answer 15

n. truthfulness; sincere honesty

Question 16

capitalism

Answer 16

n. an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not the government)…

Question 17

capitulate

Answer 17

v. to surrender; to give up or give in

Question 18

capricious

Answer 18

adj. unpredictable; likely to change at any given moment

Question 19

caricature

Answer 19

n. a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove a point

Question 20

castigate

Answer 20

v. to criticize severely; to chastise

Question 21

catalyst

Answer 21

n. in chemestry, something that changes rate of chemical reaction without the reaction itself being changed; anyone/anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it

Question 22

categorical

Answer 22

adj. unconditional; absolute

Question 23

catharsis

Answer 23

n. purification that brings emotional relief or renewal

Question 24

catholic

Answer 24

adj. universal; embracing everything

Question 25

caustic

Answer 25

adj. like acid; corrosive

Question 26

celibacy

Answer 26

n. abstinence from sex

Question 27

censure

Answer 27

v. to condemn severely for doing something bad

Question 28

cerebral

Answer 28

adj. brainy; intellectual

Question 29

chagrin

Answer 29

n. humiliation; embarrassed disappointment

Question 30

charisma

Answer 30

n. a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty