Vocab 2a

Question 1

Sanction

Answer 1

1. (POSITIVE meaning) Official or authoritative permission or authorization;
   support or encouragement
   (v) To approve or authorize officially;
   to support or tolerate by showing approval
2. (NEGATIVE meaning) A penalty meant to force compliance;
   a military or economic measure adopted by several nations and meant to coerce
   another nation violating international law
   (v) To penalize, especially for a violation of international law

Question 2

Complaisant

Answer 2

(adj.) Agreeable, eager to please, obliging

Question 3

Ubiquitous

Answer 3

(adj.) Existing or present everywhere; constantly encountered or widespread

Question 4

Distend

Answer 4

(v) To extend; to swell from internal pressure

Question 5

Vaccilate

Answer 5

(v) To hesitate or waver in forming an opinion or making a decision
(v) To fluctuate or oscillate

Question 6

Perfidy

Answer 6

(n) 1. The quality or state of being disloyal; treachery; faithlessness
2. An act of disloyalty

Question 7

Derivative

Answer 7

(adj. ) Not original; secondary or copied

(adj. ) Derived

Question 8

Fracus

Answer 8

(n) A noisy, loud quarrel, brawl, or disturbance