vocab list #3

Question 1

morpheme

Answer 1

a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming ).

Question 2

ad hoc

Answer 2

when necessary or needed.

Question 3

sine qua non

Answer 3

an essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary.

Question 4

obfuscate

Answer 4

to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally: She was criticized for using arguments that obfuscated the main issue.

Question 5

castigate

Answer 5

Castigate means punish, and punish harshly, but the punishment is always a severe scolding. Sometimes it means criticize severely.

Question 6

boilerplate

Answer 6

A boilerplate statement or response generally refers to a message used with minimal effort for multiple different situations