Vocabulary English 2 Unbroken 21-39

Question 1

anti-aircraft fire

Answer 1

firing weapons at an enemy

Question 2

flak

Answer 2

antiaircraft fire

Question 3

posthumous

Answer 3

occurring after ones death

Question 4

shrapnel

Answer 4

fragments of an object thrown by explosion

Question 5

infirmary

Answer 5

hospital

Question 6

ordnance

Answer 6

mounted guns

Question 7

atoll

Answer 7

islands formed of coral

Question 8

decapitate

Answer 8

cut off the head of a person

Question 9

turret

Answer 9

a low, flat armored tower

Question 10

cannibaism

Answer 10

the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind

Question 11

catatonic

Answer 11

a persons activity is generally reduced to nothing

Question 12

transcendence

Answer 12

a state of being or resistance

Question 13

scurvy

Answer 13

a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C

Question 14

parasites

Answer 14

an organism that lives on or in a host

Question 15

beriberi

Answer 15

a disease in which the body does not have enough thiamine

Question 16

nihilism

Answer 16

a doctrine holding that all values are useless

Question 17

dysentery

Answer 17

gastrointestinal disorders characterized by inflammation of the intestines

Question 18

sabotage

Answer 18

deliberately destroy or damage

Question 19

leviathans

Answer 19

something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship