Vocab Oct 16, 2013

Question 1

Dudgeon

Answer 1

a feeling of offense or deep resentment: the manager walked out in high dudgeon .

Question 2

Lassitude

Answer 2

a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy: she was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed | a patient complaining of lassitude and inability to concentrate.

Question 3

Ratiocination

Answer 3

formation of judgments by a process of logic; reason.

Question 4

Nobless oblige

Answer 4

the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged: there was to being a celebrity a certain element of noblesse oblige.

Question 5

Sui generis

Answer 5

One of a kind

Question 6

Sophistical

Answer 6

relating to clever but fallacious arguments. (reference to ancient greek teachers with moral skepticism and specious reasoning)

Question 7

Typology

Answer 7

1) a classification according to general type, esp. in archaeology, psychology, or the social sciences: a typology of Saxon cremation vessels. • study or analysis using such classification. 2) the study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally esp. in the Bible.

Question 8

Didactic

Answer 8

intended to instruct … intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive: a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice. • in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way: slow-paced, didactic lecturing.

Question 9

Syncretistic

Answer 9

1 the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. 1 the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. 2 Linguistics the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language.

Question 10

Malapropism

Answer 10

an amusing error that occurs when a person mistakenly uses a word that sounds like another word but that has a very different meaning

Question 11

Genesis

Answer 11

the origin or coming into being of something

Question 12

Technophile

Answer 12

someone who likes and enjoys technology and modern machines (such as computers)

Question 13

Neophyte

Answer 13

a person who has just started learning or doing something… a person who has recently joined a religious group

Question 14

Egalitarianism

Answer 14

1) a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs 2) a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people

Question 15

Meritocratic

Answer 15

1: a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement …. 2: leadership selected on the basis of intellectual criteria