Units 71-75

Question 1

stanch, v.

Answer 1

to stop or check the flow of

The country’s government has put controls on currency movement to stanch the flow of money out of the country.

Question 2

stentorian, adj.

Answer 2

extremely loud

The stentorian speaker prefers not to use a microphone so that the audience can appreciate what he calls “the full effect of my powerful oratory.”

Question 3

*stigma, n.

Answer 3

mark of disgrace or inferiority

Question 4

stint, v.

Answer 4

to be sparing

Stinting of funding for education strikes many people as shortsighted.

Question 5

*stipulate, v.

Answer 5

to specify as an essential condition

Question 6

*stolid, adj.

Answer 6

having or showing little emotion

Behind the professor’s stolid appearance is a fun-loving, gregarious character.

gregarious, adj., (of a person) fond of company; sociable.

Question 7

stratified, adj.

Answer 7

arranged in layers

Question 8

*striated, adj.

Answer 8

marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

Question 9

stricture, n.

Answer 9

something that restrains; negative criticism

Question 10

strident, adj.

Answer 10

loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

Question 11

strut, v.

Answer 11

to swagger; display to impress others

Question 12

stultify, v.

Answer 12

to impair or reduce to uselessness

Question 13

stupefy, v.

Answer 13

to dull the senses of; stun; astonish

Question 14

stygian, adj.

Answer 14

dark and gloomy; hellish

Question 15

subpoena, n.

Answer 15

notice ordering someone to appear in court

Question 16

subside, v.

Answer 16

to settle down; grow quiet

Question 17

*substantiate, v.

Answer 17

to support with proof or evidence

Question 18

substantive, adj.

Answer 18

essential; pertaining to the substance

Question 19

*subsume, v.

Answer 19

to include; incorporate

Question 20

subversive, adj.

Answer 20

intended to undermine or overthrow, especially an established government

Question 21

succor, n.

Answer 21

relief; help in time of distress or want

Question 22

suffrage, n.

Answer 22

the right to vote

Question 23

sundry, adj.

Answer 23

various

Question 24

*supersede, v.

Answer 24

to replace, especially to displace as inferior or antiquated

Question 25

supine, adj.

Answer 25

lying on the back; marked by lethargy

Question 26

supplant, v.

Answer 26

to replace; substitute

Question 27

suppliant, adj.

Answer 27

beseeching

The worshippers raised their suppliant voices to God, praying for forgiveness.

Question 28

supplicant, n.

Answer 28

one who asks humbly and earnestly

Question 29

*supposition, n.

Answer 29

the act of assuming to be true or real

Question 30

syllogism, n.

Answer 30

form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

Question 31

sylvan, adj.

Answer 31

related to the woods or forest

The house’s sylvan setting provides the family with beauty and tranquility.

Question 32

*tacit, adj.

Answer 32

silently understood; implied

Question 33

*taciturn, adj.

Answer 33

habitually untalkative

Question 34

talisman, n.

Answer 34

charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune

Question 35

*tangential, adj.

Answer 35

peripheral; digressing

Question 36

tautology, n.

Answer 36

unnecessary repetition

Question 37

taxonomy, n.

Answer 37

science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories

Question 38

tenet, n.

Answer 38

belief; doctrine

Question 39

*tenuous, adj.

Answer 39

weak; insubstantial

Question 40

theocracy, n.

Answer 40

government by priests representing a god

Question 41

thespian, n.

Answer 41

an actor or actress

Question 42

timbre, n.

Answer 42

the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular musical instrument or voice; tone color

Question 43

*tirade, n.

Answer 43

long, violent speech; verbal assault

Question 44

toady, n.

Answer 44

flatterer; hanger-on; yes-man

Question 45

tome, n.

Answer 45

book, usually large and academic

Question 46

*torpor, n.

Answer 46

lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness

After returning home from his coast-to-coast trip, the truck driver sank into a peaceful torpor, watching TV and dozing.

Question 47

torque, n.

Answer 47

a turning or twisting force; the moment of a force; the measure of a force’s tendency to produce twisting or turning and rotation around an axis

Question 48

*tortuous, adj.

Answer 48

having many twists and turns; highly complex

Question 49

tout, v.

Answer 49

to promote or praise energetically

Question 50

*tractable, adj.

Answer 50

obedient; yielding