Vocab 1

Question 1

Adjunct

Answer 1

NOUN: Something added to something else as useful but not essential: a helper
ADJECTIVE: Attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity

Question 2

Bellwether

Answer 2

NOUN: The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse. A leader, an indicator of trends.

Question 3

Caterwaul

Answer 3

VERB: To howl like a cat; to quarrel.
NOUN: A harsh or noisy cry; a racket

Question 4

Chimerical

Answer 4

ADJECTIVE: Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible

Question 5

Effete

Answer 5

ADJECTIVE: Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce.

Question 6

Fait Accompli

Answer 6

NOUN: An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action.

Question 7

Hidebound

Answer 7

ADJECTIVE: Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative.

Question 8

Hierarchy

Answer 8

NOUN: Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.

Question 9

Liturgy

Answer 9

NOUN: A religious service or rite: the form of a ritual or other act of public worship

Question 10

Mirage

Answer 10

NOUN: Something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion.

Question 11

Morass

Answer 11

NOUN: A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand.

Question 12

Noisome

Answer 12

ADJECTIVE: offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious.

Question 13

Oblivious

Answer 13

ADJECTIVE: Forgetful; unaware

Question 14

Poltroon

Answer 14

NOUN: A base coward

Question 15

Proselyte

Answer 15

NOUN: A convert; a disciple

Question 16

Quasi

Answer 16

ADJECTIVE: resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely.

Question 17

Raillery

Answer 17

NOUN: Good-humored ridicule: teasing

Question 18

Ribald

Answer 18

ADJECTIVE: Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language.

Question 19

Supine

Answer 19

ADJECTIVE: Lying flat on one’s back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive.

Question 20

Vignette

Answer 20

NOUN: a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off.