Vocabulary Term 1 List 3

Question 1

partisan

Answer 1

noun or adjective
an emotional allegiance.
Source: “One night I spent an incredible hour talking to his mother, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, whose
father had bought the failing Times in 1896, determined to produce high-quality, dispassionate
journalism at a time when newspapers were openlypartisan.”
Original: Because of his devotion, my neighbor was obviously partisan to the Republican party.

Question 2

implacable

Answer 2

adjective

 not capable of being appeased

 Source: “It is still a world where the use of force, or the threat of force, against implacable foes (Iran)

is required, but a world where a nudge at the right time and place can also be effective.”

 Original: The implacable football fan refused to leave the stadium when the game was cancelled.

Question 3

altruism

Answer 3

 noun

 the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others

 Source: “And yet this disparity offers an avenue for arevivified, close-to-home environmental

altruism.”

 Original: The man’s altruism led him to help many other people around him.

Question 4

insinuations

Answer 4

 noun

 an indirect or covert suggestion or hint, especially of a derogatory nature

 Source: “But this presidential campaign has been noteworthy for its nonsensical insinuationsor

assurances that although we’re in a jam, we can emerge from it with discrete, minimal inconvenience.”

 Original: Rappers have become so fast in tempo that minor insinuations are overlooked by the
listener.

Question 5

cohesive

Answer 5

 adjective

 tending to act or form as a united whole

 Source: “It was the cohesive Democratic message at the convention.”

 Original: Velcro tends to be cohesive.

Question 6

anathema

Answer 6

 noun

 a curse or a person or thing detested or loathed

 Source: “Many Americans, even as they view the extermination of a species as morally anathema,

struggle to grasp the tangible effects of the loss of wolves.”

 Original: Some people believe that there is an anathema on teams that never win.

Question 7

bourgeoisie

Answer 7

 noun

 the middle class, typically by their concern with property values, materialistic views, and conventional

attitudes

 Source: “All this said, the organic bourgeoisie, with their babies in reusable cotton diapers, gazing at

menus of “organic, local, farm-raised” stuff and inveighing against genetically modified (G.M.) food,

inhabits a world of illusion.”

 Original: Because of the bourgeoisie and their taste for art, the cost of developing art sky-rocketed.

Question 8

profligate

Answer 8

 adjective

 utterly

 Source: “First of all, Spain didn’t get into trouble because its government was profligate.”

 Original: I could never get away with being profligate; my mom would kill me.

Question 9

zealot

Answer 9

 noun

 a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in their pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals

 Source: “They are the anti-immigration groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform,

Numbers USA and the Center for Immigration Studies, created by a zero-population-

growthzealotnamed John Tanton.”

 Original: She was African-American and just happened to be a zealot for social reform in the issues of

women’s suffrage and race equality.

Question 10

mundane

Answer 10

 adjective

 ordinary

 Source: “Steratore and the officials drew cheers for normally mundane tasks, like microphone checks.”

 Original: The party I attended last night was very mundane.

Question 11

hubris

Answer 11

noun

 excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance

 Source: “The neuroscience of fear makes clear that such hope ishubris.”

 Original: The basketball team displayedhubrisafter winning the championship game.

Question 12

ubiquitous

Answer 12

 adjective

 existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent

 Source: “Mark Warner, the Virginia senator, was nearly as ubiquitous.”

 Originals: The early morning fog is ubiquitous.

Question 13

nuanced

Answer 13

 adjective

 having a subtle distinction or variation

 Source: “It argues for using our power judiciously and in a nuanced fashion.”

 Original: The nuanced third verse in the song was subtly different than the first verse.

Question 14

stagnate

Answer 14

 verb

 to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing; to become sluggish, lethargic, and dull

 Source: Women’s real wages have been rising for decades, while the real wages of most men have

stagnated or fallen.

 Original: After the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.

Question 15

inept

Answer 15

 adjective

 lacking sense or reason

 Source: It will be impossible for the president to avoidscrutinyand for others to escape blame for what

appears to be either the mostineptresponse to a terrorist attack in memory or a clumsy effort to shove

an intelligence failure under the rug so as to keep the president’s campaign on track.

 Original: The inept police officer arrested a bystander at the crime withoutprobable cause.

Question 16

exodus

Answer 16

 noun

 a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people

 Source: “Theexodusout of Connecticut was so large that some gas stations ran out of fuel.”

 Original: Theexodusof the pilgrims from Europe was the beginning of a very historic

journey.Whendisastrousstorms threaten a city or county, many are forced on anexodusout of the

area.