Vocabulary Unit 1 Lesson 10, 12, 14

Question 1

Abut

Answer 1

Border on; adjoin

Question 2

Bane

Answer 2

Cause of bane, ruin/distress

Question 3

Deign

Answer 3

reign
condescend
to think beneath one’s dignity

Question 4

Eke

Answer 4

“to add and tweak”
to supplement, managing to make a living with difficulty

Question 5

Knell

Answer 5

to call or announce by a mournful ringing, omen of death or failure

Question 6

Mete

Answer 6

“meet”
to allot, distribute, apportion

Question 7

Moot

Answer 7

debatable

Question 8

Mulct

Answer 8

“milked”
Punish by a fine or depriving of something

Question 9

Plumb

Answer 9

plumbing the unknown
to discover the facts of, solve or understand

Question 10

Quail

Answer 10

quiver
To draw back in fear, cower, lose courage

Question 11

Roil

Answer 11

to stir up or agitate, make a liquid cloudy/muddy

Question 12

Shunt

Answer 12

to move or turn to one side, shift/switch from one track to another

Question 13

Svelte

Answer 13

Slender and graceful, suave, polished

Question 14

Thrall

Answer 14

A slave or bondman

Question 15

Tryst

Answer 15

An appointment where lovers meet

Question 16

Behemoth

Answer 16

Huge animal, enormous

Question 17

Bestial

Answer 17

Savage

Question 18

Bovine

Answer 18

Ox, cow, stupid, slow

Question 19

Carnivorous

Answer 19

flesh eating

Question 20

Equine

Answer 20

Horse

Question 21

Harbinger

Answer 21

Forerunner, signal

Question 22

Feline

Answer 22

resembling/suggesting cat
slyness, treachery

Question 23

Leonine

Answer 23

characteristic of a lion

Question 24

Porcine

Answer 24

piglike

Question 25

Predator

Answer 25

an animal that preys on others

Question 26

Saurian

Answer 26

characteristic of a lizard

Question 27

ursine

Answer 27

Characteristic of a bear

Question 28

Venomous

Answer 28

malicious, spiteful, poisonous

Question 29

Vixen

Answer 29

female fox, malicious woman

Question 30

Vulpine

Answer 30

characteristic of a fox clever, devious cunning

Question 31

Adjudicate

Answer 31

to hear and settle a case by (ad)judicia(te)l procedure

Question 32

Appellate

Answer 32

having the power to hear appeals and to reverse lower court decisions

Question 33

Collusion

Answer 33

conspiracy

Question 34

Deposition

Answer 34

to give a "position" testimony under oath

Question 35

Equity

Answer 35

impartial/fair

Question 36

Exhume

Answer 36

Dig out of the earth

Question 37

Incommunicado

Answer 37

Without the means or right of communication with others

Question 38

Intestate

Answer 38

"no will to STATE"Having made no valid will, died w/o a legal will

Question 39

Ipso facto

Answer 39

by that very fact

Question 40

Lien

Answer 40

claim on assets that allows the holder to obtain access to the property if debts are not paid

Question 41

litigation

Answer 41

legal action/proces

Question 42

perjury

Answer 42

lying under oath, deliberate giving of false misleading testimony

Question 43

pettifogger

Answer 43

a petty, quibbling lawyer

Question 44

tort

Answer 44

a wrongful act that causes harm to someone else, whether it's on purpose or by accident.

Question 45

tribunal

Answer 45

a seat or court of justice