Vocab 2

Question 1

(of the former holder of an office, especially a college professor) having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honor.

Answer 1

emeritus

Question 2

cheerful and full of energy.

Answer 2

Ebullient

Question 3

a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

Answer 3

cacophony

Question 4

scold or criticize (someone) angrily.

Answer 4

berate

Question 5

causing harm or damage.

Answer 5

deleterious

Question 6

responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame.

Answer 6

culpability

Question 7

relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.

Answer 7

Visceral

Question 8

think deeply about something.

Answer 8

Ruminate

Question 9

essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.

Answer 9

disparate

Question 10

the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.

Answer 10

stoicism

Question 11

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Answer 11

vernacular

Question 12

a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

Answer 12

Predilection

Question 13

come together to form one mass or whole.

Answer 13

Coalesce

Question 14

a warning against certain acts

Answer 14

caveat

Question 15

causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial.

Answer 15

contentious