Vocab Test #2

Question 1

Foreboding

Answer 1

a prediction; portent.

a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.

Question 2

Synecdoche

Answer 2

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.

Question 3

Ambivalence

Answer 3

uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.

Question 4

Idyllic

Answer 4

The nature of a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.

Question 5

Stoic

Answer 5

of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity

Question 6

Retribution

Answer 6

requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.

Question 7

Exhortation

Answer 7

an utterance, discourse, or address conveying urgent advice or recommendations

Question 8

Countenance

Answer 8

appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.

Question 9

Vestige

Answer 9

a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.

Question 10

Modicum

Answer 10

a moderate or small amount: He hasn’t even a modicum of common sense.

Question 11

Offal

Answer 11

Waste parts of a butchered Animal

Question 12

Atomies

Answer 12

a skeleton

Question 13

Farthing

Answer 13

something of very small value: I don’t care a farthing for your opinion.

Question 14

Porting er

Answer 14

a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.

Question 15

Couplet

Answer 15

a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

Question 16

Elliptics

Answer 16

Defective …pertaining to elipse

Question 17

Facets

Answer 17

a similar surface cut on a fragment of rock by the action of water, windblown sand, etc.

Question 18

Hyacinth

Answer 18

a bulbous plant, Hyacinthus orientalis, of the lily family, widely cultivated for its cylindrical cluster of fragrant flowers in a variety of colors.

Question 19

Naiad

Answer 19

(sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.

Question 20

Hearth

Answer 20

the floor of a fireplace, usually of stone, brick, etc., often extending a short distance into a room.

Question 21

Valediction

Answer 21

an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.

Question 22

Canonization

Answer 22

A glorification

Question 23

Salutation

Answer 23

The act of saluting

Question 24

Epigrammatic

Answer 24

of or like an epigram; terse and ingenious in expression.

Question 25

Quatrains

Answer 25

a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

Question 26

Canter

Answer 26

Easy gallop

Question 27

Talcumed

Answer 27

Powdered/covered

Question 28

Jouncing

Answer 28

Jolt/bounce

Question 29

Pommel

Answer 29

Upward curving of saddle Infront of rider

Question 30

Forelock

Answer 30

Hair growing just above the forehead

Question 31

Paying

Answer 31

A fence

Question 32

Breadth

Answer 32

an extent or piece of something of definite or full width or as measured by its width: a breadth of cloth.