Vocab Quiz 8

Question 1

inveigle

Answer 1

(v.) To win over by wiles: entice. To acquire by ingenuity or flattery.

Question 2

acquiesce

Answer 2

(v.) to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively —often used with in or to.

Question 3

preternatural

Answer 3

(n.) Existing outside of nature. Exceeding what is natural or regular: extraordinary.

Question 4

fetish

Answer 4

(n.) An object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or
aid its owner; broadly: a material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence. An object
of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion,

Question 5

homily

Answer 5

(n.) A usually short sermon. A lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme. An inspirational
catchphrase: platitude.

Question 6

ambience

Answer 6

(n.) A feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing: atmosphere.

Question 7

cloister

Answer 7

(n.) A monastic establishment. An area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are
normally restricted. A place or state of seclusion.

Question 8

enclave

Answer 8

(n.) A distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory

Question 9

gird

Answer 9

(v.) To encircle or bind with a flexible band (such as a belt). To make (something, such as clothing or a
sword) fast or secure (as with a cord or belt). To provide or equip; especially, to invest with the sword of
knighthood. To prepare (oneself) for action.

Question 10

sequester

Answer 10

(v.) To set apart: segregate. To isolate or hide away.

Question 11

affected

Answer 11

(adj.) Influenced or touched by an external factor. Artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress

Question 12

august

Answer 12

(adj.) Marked by majestic dignity or grandeur

Question 13

amenable

Answer 13

(adj.) Liable to be brought to account: answerable. Capable of submission (as to judgment or test):
suited. Readily brought to yield, submit, or cooperate.

Question 14

blithe

Answer 14

(adj.) Lacking due thought or consideration: casual, heedless. Of a happy lighthearted character or
disposition.

Question 15

brusque

Answer 15

(adj.) Markedly short and abrupt. Blunt in manner or speech often to the point of ungracious
harshness.

Question 16

Parody

Answer 16

A composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect.

Question 17

Attitude

Answer 17

A speaker’s, author’s, or character’s disposition toward or opinion of a subject.

Question 18

Unreliable Narrator

Answer 18

An unreliable narrator is a storyteller who “misses the point” of the events or things he
describes in a story, who plainly misinterprets the motives or actions of characters, or who fails to see the
connections between events in the story. The author herself, of course, must plainly understand the connections,
because she presents the material to the readers in such a way that readers can see what the narrator overlooks.
This device is sometimes used for purposes of irony or humor.

Question 19

Avant-garde

Answer 19

(French, the vanguard of an army) Describes new writing that demonstrates new style, form,
and/or subject matter.

Question 20

Epiphany

Answer 20

Christian thinkers used this term to signify a manifestation of God’s presence in the world. It has since become in modern fiction and poetry the standard term for the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary
object or scene. In particular, the epiphany is a revelation of such power and insight that it alters the entire
world-view of the thinker who experiences it.

Question 21

Denouement

Answer 21

A French word meaning “unknotting” or “unwinding,” denouement refers to the outcome or
result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final
stages of the plot. It is the unraveling of the main dramatic complications in a play, novel or other work of
literature. In drama, the term is usually applied to tragedies or to comedies with catastrophes in their plot. This
resolution usually takes place in the final chapter or scene, after the climax is over. Usually the denouement
ends as quickly as the writer can arrange it–for it occurs only after all the conflicts have been resolved.

Question 22

Couplet

Answer 22

Two lines–the second line immediately following the first–of the same metrical length that end in a
rhyme to form a complete unit.

Question 23

Slant Rhyme

Answer 23

Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds. In most of these instances,
either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa.

Question 24

Modify

Answer 24

To restrict or limit in meaning. In grammar, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure
or clause structure. A modifier is so called because it is said to modify (change the meaning of) another element in the structure, on which it is dependent. Typically the modifier can be removed without affecting the grammar
of the sentence.

Question 25

Rhetorical Language

Answer 25

The devices used in effective or persuasive language, e.g., contrast, repetition, paradox,
understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question.

Question 26

per

Answer 26

(prep.) through, along

Question 27

intra

Answer 27

(prep.) inside, during

Question 28

sacer

Answer 28

(adj.) holy, sacred

Question 29

scribo

Answer 29

(v.) to write

Question 30

probo

Answer 30

(v.) to prove, approve