vocab 9 set 2

Question 1

opportune

Answer 1

Well-chosen/favourable conditions that were not purposeful
SYN: adventurous, auspicious, golden

Question 2

optimum

Answer 2

Most favourable frame
SYN: appropriate, ideal, prime

Question 3

orthodox

Answer 3

Ordinary or “normal” idea of something
SYN: traditional, conformist, conservative

Question 4

ostracize

Answer 4

To exclude someone from a group
SYN: shun, expel, spurn

Question 5

oust

Answer 5

Exclude someone from a group
SYN: ostracise, expel, shun

Question 6

paradox

Answer 6

A self-contradicting statement/theory
SYN: inconsistent

Question 7

paranoid

Answer 7

Obsessively worried/anxious or mistrustful
SYN: oversuspicious, paranoiac

Question 8

parry

Answer 8

A countermove to defend oneself from an attack
SYN: ward, fend, stave (off)

Question 9

partition

Answer 9

Separated or divided into parts
SYN: divide, split, separate

Question 10

penitent