Vocabulary

Question 1

Acrophobia

Answer 1

Fear of heights

Question 2

Ophidiophobia

Answer 2

Fear of snakes

Question 3

Turophobia

Answer 3

Fear of cheese

Question 4

Triskaidekaphobia

Answer 4

Fear of February 13

Question 5

Claustrophobe

Answer 5

Fear of confined places

Question 6

Coulrophobia

Answer 6

Fear of clowns

Question 7

Ochlophobia

Answer 7

Fear of mob-like crowds

Question 8

Arachibutyrophobia

Answer 8

Fear of peanut butter

Question 9

Cynophobia

Answer 9

Fear of dogs

Question 10

Mysophobia

Answer 10

A dread of dirt or filth

Question 11

Corollary

Answer 11

1. A proposition that follows immediately from a proved proposition without any additional prove
2. Something that naturally follows; Result.

Question 12

Sinophile

Answer 12

A person who loves the culture, country, or people of China

Question 13

Philologist

Answer 13

A person devoted to general learning and scholarship mostly historical linguistics

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

Question 15

Coterminous [co-extensive]

Answer 15

• Sharing a boundary
• meeting end to end
• having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
• (legal) said of linked or related property leases that expire together

Question 16

Oriental

Answer 16

Pertaining to the East

Question 17

Occidental

Answer 17

Pertaining to Europe

Question 18

Extenuate

Answer 18

To lessen, mitigate

Question 19

Precipitatant

Answer 19

Rush, impulsive, sudden, unexpected

Question 20

Conscription

Answer 20

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

Question 21

Languishing

Answer 21

Lacking of vigor or spirit

Question 22

Veritable

Answer 22

True; genuine

Question 23

Sparingly

Answer 23

In a prudent manner

Question 24

Romanticize

Answer 24

deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistic fashion; make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is.
Example: the tendency to romanticize non-industrial societies

Question 25

Anachronism

Answer 25

(from the Greek ἀνά ana, ‘against’ and χρόνος khronos, ‘time’) is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods.