Unit 6

Question 1

Appellation

Answer 1

(n) name

Question 2

Apposite

Answer 2

(adj) strikingly appropriate and relevant
e. g. The writer searched two dictionaries and a thesaurus before finding the perfectly apposite word he was looking for.

Question 3

Apprise

Answer 3

(v) to inform

e. g. I thought it right to apprise Chris of what had happened

Question 4

Approbation

Answer 4

(n) praise, approval

e. g. The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest approbation an American soldier can receive.

Question 5

Appropriate

Answer 5

(v) to take possession for one’s own use; confiscate

e. g. The invading army appropriated supplies from the houses of the local people.

Question 6

Apropos

Answer 6

(adj) relevant

e. g. Apropos of nothing, the speaker declared that the purpose of life is to love.

Question 7

Arabesque

Answer 7

(n) ornate design featuring intertwined curves; a ballet position in which one leg is extended in back while the other supports the weight of the body
e. g. The ballerina stunned the audience with her perfectly executed arabesque.

Question 8

Archeology

Answer 8

(n) the study of material evidence of past human life.

Question 9

Ardor

Answer 9

(n) great emotion or passion
e. g. The twentieth century American poet Wallace Stevens said, “it’s the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom”

Question 10

Arduous

Answer 10

(adj) extremely difficult; laborious
e. g. The task of writing a research paper is arduous, but if it is broken down into logical steps it becomes less daunting.