Vocab 9

Question 1

didactic

Answer 1

intended to teach

Question 2

diurnal

Answer 2

during the day

Question 3

ignominious

Answer 3

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

Question 4

mitigate

Answer 4

make less severe, serious, or painful.

Question 5

palpitate

Answer 5

shake; tremble

Question 6

phlegmatic

Answer 6

having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

Question 7

propitious

Answer 7

giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.

Question 8

prostrate

Answer 8

lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward.

Question 9

acquiesce

Answer 9

accept something reluctantly but without protest.

Question 10

amity

Answer 10

a friendly relationship.

Question 11

arduous

Answer 11

involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.

Question 12

gestalt

Answer 12

an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

Question 13

inundate

Answer 13

overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.

Question 14

perjury

Answer 14

the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

Question 15

perspicuity

Answer 15

something that can be seen through (the perspicuity of her argument)