Vocabulary Quiz 2

Question 1

ad hominem

Answer 1

A personal attack. for example if someone is arguing with another person, they are insulting them rather than arguing with the other person’s statement.

Question 2

loan word

Answer 2

An idea of of a word or language which was taken from another word from another language or language influenced from another language.

Question 3

ramifications

Answer 3

Ramifications means consequences which action is taken, it is pretty much the consequences due to ones actions.

Question 4

prose

Answer 4

Prose means to talk normally, or talking in a way where it is not poetry. If you were to talk in a poetic way then you would not be talking in prose.

Question 5

vis-a-vis

Answer 5

It means “in regards to”, you would use this when you are talking about something that relates or regards something. It also means “face to face”

Question 6

quid pro quo

Answer 6

“This or that”, it means to exchange something in order to get something in return. An example would be if someone gave someone money and in exchange they got an item.

Question 7

ellipsis

Answer 7

Ellipsis is three dots “…”, you would use this when skipping words in a quote, it removes certain words so that our focus is on the main idea.

Question 8

ubiquitous

Answer 8

Something that you see everywhere, such as how you see smartphones in our world.

Question 9

schadenfreude

Answer 9

Happiness or satisfaction/unconscious pleasure from somebody’s misfortune or failure who you dislike.

Question 10

Etymology

Answer 10

Breaking down parts of a word, Etymology is the history and origin of a word, it refers to the root of the word from which it is derived from.

Question 11

Via

Answer 11

“By way of”, such as you drove to school via highway.

Question 12

Perfunctory

Answer 12

Something that is not very meaningful. Perfunctory refers to something that is shallow and there is limited meaning behind it.