Vocab 11 And 12 Definitions

Question 1

Aberration

Answer 1

Straying from what is normal or accepted

Question 2

Ambience

Answer 2

Environment; the surrounding atmosphere

Question 3

Episode

Answer 3

An incident in a person’s life or in a story or play

Question 4

Erratic

Answer 4

Irregular or inconsistent in movement, habit, quality, or ideas

Question 5

Exodus

Answer 5

Mass departure or emigration

Question 6

Obituary

Answer 6

Notice of a death with biographical information

Question 7

Transgress

Answer 7

To go beyond or over set limits; to break a rule

Question 8

Transient

Answer 8

• passing quickly; transitory
• staying only a short time
• a person or thing having a short stay

Question 9

Transitive

Answer 9

(In grammar) describing an action carried from subject to verb to object; needing a direct object to complete the meaning of the verb

Question 10

Transitory

Answer 10

Lasting for only a short while

Question 11

Translucent

Answer 11

Permitting light to pass through, but not transparent

Question 12

Advent

Answer 12

• arrival or coming into being

- (if capitalized) the. period beginning four weeks before Christmas preparing for the birth of Christ

Question 13

Circumvent

Answer 13

• to avoid; to evade by cleverness

- to avoid by passing around

Question 14

Convene

Answer 14

To assemble, especially for a meeting

Question 15

Deviate

Answer 15

To turn aside from a course, norm, pattern, or subject

Question 16

Devious

Answer 16

• winding; roundabout

- underhanded; deceptive

Question 17

Impervious

Answer 17

• not penetrable by light rays, moisture, etc.

- incapable of being influenced or affected

Question 18

Intervene

Answer 18

• to occur between events or periods
• to come between, thereby easing a situation
• to interfere or to interrupt

Question 19

Itinerant

Answer 19

• traveling from place to place, especially to perform some duty or work; transient
• a person who travels from place to place

Question 20

Itinerary

Answer 20

• a route of travel

- a plan or record of a journey

Question 21

Telepathy

Answer 21

Communication from one mind to another without speech, writing, or other sensory means