Vocab Unit 8

Question 1

Stricture

Answer 1

(n.) a restriction, a limitation

Question 2

Egalitarian

Answer 2

(adj.) believing in the social and economic equality of all people

Question 3

Munificent

Answer 3

(adj.) very generous; lavish

Question 4

Exigency

Answer 4

(n.) an emergency; and urgency

Question 5

Volatile

Answer 5

(adj.) quick to evaporate; highly unstable; explosive

Question 6

Trepidation

Answer 6

(n.) fear or apprehension

Question 7

Sycophant

Answer 7

(n.) one who sucks up to others

Question 8

Subversive

Answer 8

(adj.) corruption; overthrowing; undermining

Question 9

Agnostic

Answer 9

(n.) one who believes that the existence of a God can be neither proven nor disproven

Question 10

Bastion

Answer 10

(n.) strong; fortress; fortified place

Question 11

Catharsis

Answer 11

(n.) purification that brings emotional relief or renewal

Question 12

Castigate

Answer 12

(v.) to criticize severely; to chastise

Question 13

Derogatory

Answer 13

(adj.) disapproving; degrading

Question 14

Disparate

Answer 14

(adj.) different; incompatible; unequal

Question 15

Fatalist

Answer 15

(n.) belief in predestination- future events are already determined and humans are powerless to change them

Question 16

Genre

Answer 16

(n.) a type or category, especially of art or writing

Question 17

Hegemony

Answer 17

(n.) leadership; especially of one nation over another

Question 18

Ideology

Answer 18

(n.) a system of social or political ideas

Question 19

Panacea

Answer 19

(n.) something that cures everything

Question 20

Lampoon

Answer 20

(v.) to satirize; to mock; to parody