Vocabulary

Question 1

obdurate

Answer 1

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

Question 2

Elan

Answer 2

Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Question 3

Brio

Answer 3

Vigor; vivacity
(especially music)

Question 4

Odeon

Answer 4

name for several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for musical activities (smaller than theaters)

Question 5

philtrum

Answer 5

Divot under your nose

Question 6

Scherzo

Answer 6

Short classical music piece, sometimes a movement from a larger work.
Often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work

Question 7

Elegy

Answer 7

A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

A poem composed in elegiac couplets.
(Greek for of dactylic hexameter)
– u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | ––

Question 8

Reprehensible

Answer 8

Deserving rebuke or censure.
Culpable.

Question 9

Ambergris

Answer 9

A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes.

Question 10

Tabor (music)

Answer 10

Portable snare drum

Question 11

Res

Answer 11

Latin for thing

Question 12

Cassowary

Answer 12

Flightless birds from New Guinea

Question 13

polyphyletic

Answer 13

A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.

Question 14

Regaled

Answer 14

Entertained. Feasted.

Question 15

Altocumulus

Answer 15

Cloud type characterized by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches

Question 16

Krugerrand

Answer 16

The Krugerrand is a South African coin, first minted on 3 July 1967 to help market SA gold and produced by Rand Refinery and the SA Mint. The name is a compound of Paul Kruger, the former President of the SA Republic and rand, the SA unit of currency.

Question 17

Gest

Answer 17

a tale of adventures
especially a romance in verse
(A knightly gest)

Question 18

James Agee

Answer 18

James Agee (1909 – 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as the screenwriter of the film The African Queen.

Question 19

Leah Jeffries

Answer 19

Young black actress from Percy Jackson series

Question 20

Isopods

Answer 20

Isopoda is an order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both aquatic species, and terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, and five pairs of branching appendages on the abdomen that are used in respiration. Females brood their young in a pouch under their thorax.

Question 21

Sculls

Answer 21

Plural form of scull
A long oar used at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.

A small light racing boat for one, two, or four rowers, each using a pair of sculls.

Question 22

Sutra

Answer 22

A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule

Any of various aphoristic doctrinal summaries produced for memorization generally between 500 and 200 BC and later incorporated into Hindu literature.

A scriptural narrative, especially a text regarded as a discourse of the Buddha.

Question 23

Lordosis

Answer 23

Lordosis behavior also known as mammalian lordosis (Greek from lordos “bent backward”) or presenting, is the naturally occurring body posture for sexual receptivity to copulation present in females of most mammals

Question 24

Pueblo

Answer 24

Spanish for Village

Question 25

Finial

Answer 25

A sculptured ornament, often in the shape of a leaf or flower, at the top of a gable, pinnacle, or similar structure.

Question 26

Panglossian

Answer 26

Excessively or naively Optimistic
“The best of all possible worlds.”

After Dr. Pangloss in “Candide”

Question 27

Willie Pete

Answer 27

The M34 White Phosphorus smoke grenade or “Willie Pete” was a smoke / incendiary grenade manufactured by Rocky Mountain Arsenal from the late 1950s and used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War and was also used during the First Gulf War. The M34 could be fired from a rifle grenade launcher using M2-series grenade launching adapters.

Question 28

Azimuth

Answer 28

the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system.

In military air strikes controlling the azimuth as well as the coordinates of the strikes effects which areas are at highest risk of errant ordnance (short/long more likely than to the side)

Question 29

Etiology

Answer 29

Study of causes
(Usually medical)

Question 30

Pusillanimous

Answer 30

adjective
Lacking courage; cowardly.
Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly

Question 31

Iconoclast

Answer 31

One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
One who destroys sacred religious images.
A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

Question 32

perspicacious

Answer 32

Clear sighted, shrewd, keen