Vocab week 6 flash cards

Question 1

Anarchy

Answer 1

1. Total absence of government

2. Lack of order; total confusion

Question 2

Apprehend

Answer 2

1. To seize; to arrest

2. To grasp the meaning of; to understand

Question 3

Arraign

Answer 3

1.To bring before a court to face charges

Question 4

Assimilate

Answer 4

1. To absorb into a population

2. To take in a part and absorb into the whole

Question 5

Bizarre

Answer 5

1.Strikingly out of the ordinary; peculiar

Question 6

Calamity

Answer 6

1. An event that causes great suffering and harm; a disaster

2. Disastrous

Question 7

Conspire

Answer 7

1. To plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal
2. To join or act together
3. A joining with others to plan or carry out unlawful acts

Question 8

Dissension

Answer 8

1.A difference of opinion; disagreement

Question 9

Elapse

Answer 9

1.To pass or slip by (used with time)

Question 10

Imminent

Answer 10

1.About to happen; likely to occur in the very near future

Question 11

Interrogate

Answer 11

1. To ask questions of, especially in a thorough or formal manner
2. The act of questioning

Question 12

Lionize

Answer 12

1.To treat as a celebrity

Question 13

Meticulous

Answer 13

1.Extemely careful; attentive to small details

Question 14

Shackle

Answer 14

1. A ring or band put around the arm or leg to prevent free movement
2. Something that prevents free action
3. To prevent freedom of action

Question 15

Swelter

Answer 15

1. To suffer from or to be overcome by great heat

2. Very hot and humid; uncomfortable because of extremely hot weather