unit4

Question 1

carnivorous

Answer 1

Meat-eating or flesh-eating.

Question 2

herbivorous

Answer 2

Plant-eating.

Question 3

insectivorous

Answer 3

Feeding on insects.

Question 4

voracious

Answer 4

Having a huge appetite.

Question 5

carnage

Answer 5

Great destruction of life (as in a battle); slaughter.

Question 6

carnal

Answer 6

Having to do with bodily pleasures.

Question 7

incarnate

Answer 7

Given bodily or actual form; especially, having human body.

Question 8

reincarnation

Answer 8

(1) Rebirth in new bodies or forms of life. (2) Someone who has been born again with a new body after death.

Question 9

credence

Answer 9

Mental acceptance of something as true or real; belief.

Question 10

credible

Answer 10

(1) Able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe. (2) Good enough to be effective.

Question 11

credulity

Answer 11

Readiness and willingness to believe on the basis of little evidence.

Question 12

credo

Answer 12

(1) A statement of the basic beliefs of a religious faith. (2) A set of guiding principles or beliefs.

Question 13

affidavit

Answer 13

A sworn statement made in writing.

Question 14

diffident

Answer 14

Lacking confidence; timid, cautious.

Question 15

fiduciary

Answer 15

(1) Having to do with a confidence or trust. (2) Held in trust for another.

Question 16

perfidy

Answer 16

Faithlessness, disloyalty, or treachery.

Question 17

concurrent

Answer 17

Happening or operating at the same time.

Question 18

cursory

Answer 18

Hastily and often carelessly done.

Question 19

discursive

Answer 19

Passing from one topic to another.

Question 20

precursor

Answer 20

One that goes before and indicates the coming of another.

Question 21

quadruped

Answer 21

An animal having four feet.

Question 22

pedigree

Answer 22

The line of ancestors of a person or animal.

Question 23

impediment

Answer 23

Something that interferes with movement or progress.

Question 24

pedestrian

Answer 24

Commonplace, ordinary, or unimaginative.

Question 25

deflect

Answer 25

To turn aside, especially from a straight or fixed course.

Question 26

reflective

Answer 26

(1) Capable of reflecting light, images, or sound waves. (2) Thoughtful.

Question 27

genuflect

Answer 27

To kneel on one knee and then rise as an act of respect.

Question 28

inflection

Answer 28

(1) A change in the pitch, tone, or loudness of the voice. (2) The change in form of a word showing its case, gender, number, person, tense, mood, voice, or comparison.

Question 29

posterior

Answer 29

Situated toward or on the back; rear.

Question 30

posthumous

Answer 30

(1) Published after the death of the author. (2) Following or happening after one’s death.

Question 31

postmodern

Answer 31

Having to do with a movement in architecture, art, or literature that is a reaction against modernism and that reintroduces traditional elements and techniques in odd contexts as well as elements from popular culture.

Question 32

postmortem

Answer 32

(1) Occurring after death. (2) Following the event.