Vocabulary 26-50

Question 0

The choice and use of words in speech or writing

Answer 0

Diction

Question 1

A leader who tries to stir up people by appealing to emotion, prejudice, etc., in order to achieve power

Answer 1

Demagogue

Question 2

Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson

Answer 2

Didactic

Question 3

Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once

Answer 3

Dilatory

Question 4

Not straight forward or candid; insincere or calculating

Answer 4

Disingenuous

Question 5

Made up of or combining elements from varying sources

Answer 5

Eclectic

Question 6

exempli gratia (for example)

Answer 6

e.g.

Question 7

Favoring social equality

Answer 7

Egalitarian

Question 8

Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks

Answer 8

Ellipsis

Question 9

Short lived

Answer 9

Ephemeral

Question 10

To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

Answer 10

Equivocate

Question 11

Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned

Answer 11

Erudite

Question 12

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible

Answer 12

Ethereal

Question 13

A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct

Answer 13

Euphemism

Question 14

Extremely scanty (bare)

Answer 14

Exiguous

Question 15

“Tongue-in-cheek-advice” characterized by wit and pleasantry

Answer 15

Facetious

Question 16

An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact

Answer 16

Fait accompli

Question 17

Having bounds

Answer 17

Finite

Question 18

Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Answer 18

Forbearance

Question 19

Happening by chance

Answer 19

Fortuitous

Question 20

Peaceful, undisturbed, and happy

Answer 20

Halcyon

Question 21

Extravagant exaggeration

Answer 21

Hyperbole

Question 22

One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institution

Answer 22

Iconoclast

Question 23

id est (that is)

Answer 23

i.e.