Vocab Pt. 2

Question 1

Repute

Answer 1

To assign a reputation to (usually used with “to be”).

Question 2

Putative

Answer 2

Supposed; reputed.

Question 3

Presage

Answer 3

A sign or feeling concerning some future event; omen; foreboding.

Question 4

Sagacious

Answer 4

Shrewd; having good judgement; perceptive.

Question 5

Conscientious

Answer 5

Guided by one’s sense of right and wrong. Thorough; with careful attention

Question 6

Plebiscite

Answer 6

A direct vote of all the people of a country of district on an important matter; a referendum

Question 7

Prescience

Answer 7

Knowledge of events before they occur; foresight; foreknowledge.

Question 8

alliteration

Answer 8

the occurrence of the same initial sound in several words in succession

Question 9

literal

Answer 9

in accordance with the explicit or primary meaning of a word or phrase; not its metaphorical meaning; word for word, verbatim; concerned mainly with facts

Question 10

literate

Answer 10

able to read and write; knowledgeable; educated

Question 11

obliterate

Answer 11

to do away with completely; to wipe out; erase

Question 12

ascribe

Answer 12

to attribute to a particular cause, source or origin

Question 13

circumscribe

Answer 13

to draw a line around; to encircle; to confine; to limit

Question 14

conscription

Answer 14

a military draft

Question 15

proscribe

Answer 15

to denounce or condemn; to prohibit; to forbid

Question 16

subscribe

Answer 16

to pledge to pay for something or to contribute to something; to place an order by signing; to express consent or agreement; to assent

Question 17

transcribe

Answer 17

to make a copy of; to write out fully; to make a sound recording for later reproduction; to arrange music for an instrument different from the one composed for

Question 18

acronym

Answer 18

a word composed of the first letters or parts of a name or series of words

Question 19

onomatopoeia

Answer 19

a word that sounds like the thing it names

Question 20

pseudonym

Answer 20

a fictitious name

Question 21

ignominious

Answer 21

shameful; disgraceful

Question 22

nomenclature

Answer 22

a system of naming, especially in the arts or science