Vocab Quiz 10

Question 1

querulous

Answer 1

(adj.) Habitually complaining. Fretful, whining.

Question 2

itinerant

Answer 2

(adj.) Traveling from place to place, especially: covering a circuit.

Question 3

recapitulation

Answer 3

(n.) A concise summary. In biology: the repetition of an evolutionary or other process during
development or growth. In music: a part of a movement (especially one in sonata form) in which themes from
the exposition are restated

Question 4

incredulity

Answer 4

(n.) The state of being unwilling or unable to believe something.

Question 5

boor

Answer 5

(n.) A rude and bad-mannered person

Question 6

implicit

Answer 6

(adj.) Capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed: implied. Involved in the
nature or essence of something though not revealed, expressed, or developed: potential

Question 7

explicit

Answer 7

(adj.) Fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity: leaving no question as
to meaning or intent. Fully developed or formulated

Question 8

intuitive

Answer 8

(adj.) Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. Easy
to use and understand

Question 9

lucidity

Answer 9

(n.) Clearness of thought or style. a presumed capacity to perceive the truth directly and
instantaneously: clairvoyance

Question 10

invective

Answer 10

(n.) Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

Question 11

vacillation

Answer 11

(n.) The inability to decide between different opinions or actions; indecision.

Question 12

slander

Answer 12

(n.) The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation. A false
and malicious spoken statement

Question 13

anachronism

Answer 13

(n.) A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a
thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. The action of attributing something to a period to which it does not
belong.

Question 14

bucolic

Answer 14

(adj.) Of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen: pastoral. Relating to or typical of rural life

Question 15

Sonnet

Answer 15

Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The conventional Italian, or Petrarchean, sonnet is
rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; the English, or Shakespearean, sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

Question 16

Rhyme Royal

Answer 16

A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval
poets.

Question 17

Ballad

Answer 17

a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme abab with four feet in lines one
and three and three feet in lines two and four. Ballads are usually narrative, which means they tell a story.

Question 18

Dactyl

Answer 18

A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

Question 19

Iamb

Answer 19

A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable

Question 20

Tetrameter

Answer 20

A line of four feet.

Question 21

Hexameter

Answer 21

A line containing six feet.

Question 22

Pentameter

Answer 22

A line containing five feet.

Question 23

Terza Rima

Answer 23

A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. Made popular by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.

Question 24

Internal Rhyme

Answer 24

Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end

Question 25

unus

Answer 25

one

Question 26

duo

Answer 26

two

Question 27

tres

Answer 27

three

Question 28

urbs

Answer 28

city

Question 29

habito

Answer 29

to live