vocab 24

Question 1

auditor

Answer 1

(n) a person who formally examines and verifies financial accounts

Question 2

audition

Answer 2

(n) a trial performance to evaluate a performer’s skills

Question 3

inaudible

Answer 3

(adj) not heard or capable of being heard

Question 4

vista

Answer 4

(n) a distant view; an extensive mental view over a stretch of time

Question 5

.visionary

Answer 5

a person with foresight and imagination; a dreamer whose ideas might be impractical

Question 6

Errant

Answer 6

(adj) wandering about aimlessly; straying outside proper bounds

Question 7

Aberrant

Answer 7

(adj) straying or differing from the right, normal, or natural type.

Question 8

Erratic

Answer 8

(adj) having no fixed course; lacking in consistency

Question 9

Erroneous

Answer 9

(adj) mistaken, incorrect (often used in front of words like “idea” or “assumption,” since most of us have many notions that are wrong or mistaken.

Question 10

vis-a-vis

Answer 10

(preposition) literally means “face-to-face” but used today to mean in relation to something else or compared with something else

Question 11

ERR

Answer 11

from the Latin verb errare, means “to wander” or “to stray.” Errata is Latin for “mistake,”

Question 12

AUD

Answer 12

comes from the Latin word audire, which means “to hear.” What is audible can be heard. An audience is a group of listeners.