Vocabulary II

Question 1

Cannon fodder

Answer 1

People considered readily available and of little value.

Question 2

Fodder

Answer 2

Raw material.

Food.

Question 3

Abdicate

Answer 3

Surrender

Relinquish

Question 4

Doctrine

Answer 4

A particular body of teachings

Question 5

Liberty

Answer 5

Freedom from arbitrary or despotic rule.

Freedom from foreign rule.

Question 6

Unalienable

Answer 6

Not capable of being sold or transferred.

Question 7

Subjective

Answer 7

Biased.

The nature of an object as it exists in the mind, rather than the object itself.

Question 8

Objective

Answer 8

Not influenced by personal feelings.

Unbiased.

Question 9

Deliverance

Answer 9

Liberation, Salvation

Theology: Salvation from sin.

Question 10

Moratorium

Answer 10

A suspension of activity.

Question 11

Proxy

Answer 11

Substitute.

Agent of.

Question 12

Tender

Answer 12

To offer.

Make a formal offer of.

Question 13

Parse

Answer 13

To analyze.

To analyze one part of a sentence.

Question 14

Headwind

Answer 14

A wind opposed to the course of a moving object.

Question 15

Rebar

Answer 15

A steel bar used to reinforce concrete.

Question 16

Bode

Answer 16

To be an omen of.

Example: The news bodes evil days for him.

Question 17

Salubrious

Answer 17

Beneficial.

Healthy

Question 18

Proverbial

Answer 18

Having become the object of a proverb (a short popular saying) or of common mention.
Example: the proverbial barn door which is closed too late.

Question 19

Querulous

Answer 19

Full of complaints

Question 20

Unilateral

Answer 20

Undertaken by one side only.

Not mutual.

Question 21

Interventionism

Answer 21

The policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state.

Question 22

Firmament

Answer 22

Sky.

Lid.

Question 23

Dominion

Answer 23

Power of control (or governing authority) over.

To have dominion over something.

Question 24

Discretionary

Answer 24

For any use or purpose one chooses.

Question 25

(adj.) Derivative

Answer 25

Not original.

Secondary.

Question 26

Consolidate

Answer 26

To bring together separate parts into a unified whole.