Vocab 13

Question 1

Delicatassen

Answer 1

Deli. A market selling a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods

Question 2

purse

Answer 2

1. a sum of money given as a prize in a sporting contest, especially a boxing match.
2. (with reference to the lips) pucker or contract, typically to express disapproval or irritation.
   “Marianne took a glance at her reflection and pursed her lips disgustedly”
3. vagina/scrotum
4. the money possessed or available to a person or country.
   “institutions are funded from the same general purse”
5. a small pouch of leather or plastic used for carrying money, typically by a woman.

Question 3

(loosen/hold the) purse strings

Answer 3

One’s expenditure/budget.
“Hold the purse strings” is to control it, “Loosen” is to increase it, etc

Question 4

Shank

Answer 4

a makeshift knife fashioned from a sharp item such as broken glass or a razor.
“he used a shank to threaten a guard and steal his uniform”

slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife.
“I got shanked with a broken bottle”

strike (the ball) with the heel of the club.
“I shanked a shot and hit a person on a shoulder”

a long, narrow part of a tool connecting the handle to the operational end.
“gouges vary in the amount of curve or sweep on the cutting edge and the form of the shank”

a person’s leg, especially the part from the knee to the ankle.
“the old man’s thin, bony shanks showed through his trousers”

mishit (a shot), typically by striking it with the frame of the racket.
“he missed an easy smash then shanked a backhand volley”’

the narrow middle of the sole of a shoe.
“a rigid leather boot with a full shank”

the lower part of an animal’s foreleg as a cut of meat.
“meals like ham hocks and lamb shanks are cooked with reasonably priced cuts of meat”

Question 5

mishit

Answer 5

(in various sports) hit or kick (a ball) badly or in the wrong direction.
“an incompetent tennis player, he mishit the shot”

Question 6

ride the rails

Answer 6

ride on top or in a train, especially a freight train and without permission.

Question 7

disparage

Answer 7

regard or represent as being of little worth.
“he never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors”

Question 8

Expenditure

Answer 8

an amount of money spent or dedicated to spending
“the expenditure of taxpayers’ money”

Question 9

Clad

Answer 9

1. clothed.
   “they were clad in T-shirts and shorts”
2. provide or encase with a covering or coating.
   “he cladded the concrete-frame structure in stainless steel”

Question 10

pansy

Answer 10

a weak, gay, or effeminate man or boy. used as a term of abuse and disparagement

Question 11

hobo

Answer 11

a wandering homeless person. Historically rail-riders

Question 12

pogey

Answer 12

unemployment or welfare benefit.
“so you want me to end up on pogey ?”

Question 13

dole (many definitions)

Answer 13

1. sorrow; mourning.
2. distribute shares of something.
   “the scanty portions of food doled out to them”
3. a person’s lot or destiny.
   “death be his dole who worst maintains the strife”
4. benefit paid by the government to the unemployed or the low income, ill-opportune.
   “they are receiving the dole”
5. on the dole — registered as unemployed and receiving benefit from the government.
   “two million workers are already officially on the dole”

Question 14

Medial

Answer 14

1. situated in the middle.
2. (of a vowel) pronounced in the middle of the mouth; central.
3. (of a speech sound) in the middle of a word.
   “a medial consonant”

Question 15

Skimpy

Answer 15

1. providing or consisting of less than is needed; meager.
   “my knowledge of music is extremely skimpy”
2. (of clothes) short and revealing.
   “a skimpy dress”

Question 16

Wellfair

Question 17

Dual carriageway

Answer 17

Two roads (in opposite directions) separated by a separated by the median divider.
“I couldn’t cross to either side. I was stuck in the middle of the dual carriageway”

Question 18

Midline

Answer 18

a median line or plane of bilateral symmetry, especially that of the body.
“the abdomen was opened by a midline incision”

Question 19

cataract

Answer 19

A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye, which is typically clear. For people who have cataracts, seeing through cloudy lenses is like looking through a frosty or fogged-up window

Question 20

Scanty

Answer 20

1. (of clothing) revealing; skimpy.
   “the women looked cold in their scanty gowns”
2. brief underpants.

small or insufficient in quantity or amount.
“scanty wages”

Question 21

Split road

Answer 21

1. a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a central strip of turf, etc.
2. A path that splits in two
3. Two decisions leading to different life paths

Question 22

Median

Answer 22

1. Middle man
2. Middle
3. Middle point of a data set
4. a medial part (as a vein or nerve)

Question 23

Tarpaper

Answer 23

a heavy, tar-coated paper used as a waterproofing material in building construction.

Question 24

Snapple Facts

Answer 24

Snapple drinks have fun facts on the back of their juices

Question 25

Bindi

Answer 25

A decorative mark on the forehead, worn by Hindu women (and members of some other religious groups), traditionally believed to be venerating an energy center of the human body or representing “the third eye,” but also worn as an adornment or a sign of marriage

Question 26

pharyngeal

Answer 26

It is the part at the back of your mouth. It includes the soft palate, the tonsils, the uvula, the base of the tongue and the back wall of your throat. It starts behind the nose and goes past the back of the mouth, down the neck and behind the larynx (voice box). The lowest part of the pharynx joins the tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach (called the esophagus).

Question 27

Telos

Answer 27

Philosopher Aristotle’s term for the essential purpose or nature for something.
“It should be given to whomever would fulfill its telos.”

Question 28

Euda

Answer 28

Eudaimonic is pursuing happiness by finding meaning and purpose. Self-fulfillment and self-improvement both contribute to this form of happiness

Question 29

arbitrary

Answer 29

1. (of a constant or other quantity) of unspecified value.
2. (of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority.
   “arbitrary rule by King and bishops has been made impossible”
3. based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
   “his mealtimes were entirely arbitrary”

Question 30

Propensity

Answer 30

an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

Question 31

deride

Answer 31

the expression of contempt or ridicule.
“the deriding of those who called for more considered responses as “bleeding hearts””

Question 32

Prosaic

Answer 32

1. commonplace; unromantic.
   “the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns”
2. having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty.
   “prosaic language can’t convey the experience”