Vocabulary Set 9 (24.10.18)

Question 1

mortarboards (mor turr boards) (n.)

Answer 1

• an academic cap consisting of a closely fitting headpiece with a broad flat projecting square top
  ex: Tasseled mortarboards will be tossed in the air in my absence.

Question 2

sufferance (suff rence) (n.)

Answer 2

• patient endurance
• pain, misery
  ex: Libo got rid of him by sufferance far more quickly than Novinha could ever have done by argument.

Question 3

peripatetic (pear ah pa tet ic) (adj.)

Answer 3

• moving or traveling from place to place
• suggests movement or activity as part of a routine or occupation
• implies a more structured, often professional movement, than itinerant
  ex: She worked as a peripatetic journalist for most of her life.

Question 4

rubric (ru brick) (n.)

Answer 4

• an authoritative rule // an established rule, tradition, or custom
  especially : a rule for conduct of a liturgical service
  ex: Make sure this rubric clearly outlines the necessary hard and soft skills for any intern.

Question 5

parenthetical (pair in thet eh cul) (adj.)

Answer 5

• A parenthetical remark is said in addition to the main part of what you are saying or writing.
  ex: He had become so convoluted and parenthetical that half the time Ela couldn’t even understand what he was talking about.

Question 6

dandle (dan dul) (v.)

Answer 6

• to move up and down in one’s arms or on one’s knee in affectionate play
  ex: You could have dandled me on your knee.

Question 7

exogamy (ex sah a mee) (n.)

Answer 7

• marriage outside of a specific group especially as required by custom or law
  ex: The benefits of peaceful exogamy would be made plain.

Question 8

sententious (sin tin tious) (adj.)

Answer 8

• given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
  (nowadays – banality, oversimplification, and excessive moralizing)
  ex: He’s a smug and sententious writer.

Question 9

phlegmatic (phleg ma tick) (adj.)

Answer 9

• having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
  ex: Capper struck me as phlegmatic about the power of the supermarkets.

Question 10

personage (per son a gg) (n.)

Answer 10

• a person of rank, note, or distinction
  especially : one distinguished for presence and personal power
  ex: No Irish personage is spared the satirical lash.

Question 11

gumption (gum shun) (n.)

Answer 11

• enterprise, initiative
  ex: I lacked the gumption to try
• chiefly dialectal : common sense, horse sense
  ex: He hadn’t much gumption when he picked out a wife.