Vocabulary

Question 1

Solvent

Answer 1

Able to pay all debts.

Question 2

Solvency

Answer 2

The ability of a company to meet its financial obligations.

Question 3

Ancillary

Answer 3

Providing necessary support to the primary activities of an organization.

Example: “the main factory and its ancillary plants.”

Question 4

Pluralist

Answer 4

Metaphysical, pragmatist view that there is more than one way to conceptualize the world and it’s content.

Question 5

Axiom

Answer 5

• A premise or starting point of reasoning.

- a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.

Question 6

Caveat

Answer 6

A stipulation

A condition attached to an agreement.

Question 7

Autonomy

Answer 7

Independence or freedom

Self-governing (“autonomous”)

Question 8

Homogeneous

Answer 8

Of the same or like kind

Question 9

Arrears

Answer 9

Overdue debt, liability, or obligation.

An account is “in arrears” if one or more payments are missed.

Question 10

Viscosity

Answer 10

Degree of heaviness, density

Question 11

Providence

Answer 11

The force by which God creates and controls things.

Question 12

Glut

Answer 12

Over-supply

Question 13

Verbiage

Answer 13

Use of many words without necessity, or with little sense. Wordiness.

Question 14

Rhetoric

Answer 14

• The art of expressive speech or discourse.

- skillful use of speech

Question 15

Lexicon

Answer 15

The vocabulary of a particular person. (field, social class, etc)

Question 16

Intemperate

Answer 16

Unrestrained, unbridled

Question 17

Alliteration

Answer 17

Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words.

• “panicking paranoia”

Question 18

Rout

Answer 18

An overwhelming defeat.

Question 19

Median

Answer 19

Relating to the middle.

Question 20

Faith

Answer 20

Confidence or trust in a person or thing.

Belief that is not based on proof.

Question 21

Alpha

Answer 21

Having the highest rank in the dominance hierarchy.

Most powerful or aggressive.

Question 22

Omega

Answer 22

The last in a series.

The end.

Question 23

Mitigate

Answer 23

To lessen.

Make less severe.

Question 24

Appropriation

Answer 24

An act of a legislature allowing money from the treasury to be paid for a specific use.

Question 25

Legislature

Answer 25

The branch of govt empowered to make laws (congress) separate from the executive and judicial branches.

Question 26

Subsidy

Answer 26

Monetary aid from a govt to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, etc.

Question 27

Refugee

Answer 27

A person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country. As in a time of political upheaval or war.

Question 28

Circumvent

Answer 28

To bypass.

To go around.