Vocabulary Unit 1 Lesson 6, 7, 9

Question 1

Adonis

Answer 1

Exceptionally handsome young man

Question 1

Aegis

Answer 1

Sponsorship, protection
ex: the science fair was staged under the aegis of Microsoft

Question 2

Bacchanal

Answer 2

“Bacchanal and the Bottle”
A drunken reveler, festival with wine honoring god of wine (Bacchus)

Question 3

Cassandra

Answer 3

“Cassandra’s Clear vision”
One who prophesies doom or disaster

Question 4

Cornucopia

Answer 4

Abundance, horn of plenty

Question 5

Cupidity

Answer 5

Excessive desire for wealth

Question 6

Erotic

Answer 6

Concerning sexual love and desire

Question 7

Herculean

Answer 7

Tremendously difficult and demanding; resembling Hercules in size, power, and courage.

Question 8

Hydra

Answer 8

A persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as old ones are solved

Question 9

Iridescent

Answer 9

Shimmery

Question 10

Narcissism

Answer 10

Excessive admiration of oneself

Question 11

Odyssey

Answer 11

Long series of wanderings

Answer 12

Majestic; incomporaby superior

Question 13

Palladium

Answer 13

Safeguard or guarantee of the integrity of social institutions

Question 14

Phoenix

Answer 14

A person or thing of peerless beauty of excellence

Question 15

Aberrant

Answer 15

“Atypical”
deviating from what is normal or typical

Question 16

Anthropomorphism

Answer 16

Attributing human shape to gods, object, animals

Question 16

Archetype

Answer 16

ProtoTYPE
Model

Question 17

Authoritarian

Answer 17

Unquestioning obedience to authority
Rejects individual freedom of judgment and action

Question 18

Catharsis

Answer 18

Releasing of emotions by bringing them to consciousness

Question 19

Demography

Answer 19

Science of vital statistics

Question 20

Epidemiology

Answer 20

Branch of medicine that investigates the cases and controls of epidemics/diseases

Question 21

Euthanasia

Answer 21

Method of causing death painlessly

Question 22

Extrovert

Answer 22

Outgoing

Question 23

Psychic

Answer 23

Beyond natural or known physical processes

Question 24

Psychopath

Answer 24

Person afflicted with a mental disorder

Question 25

Psychotherapy

Answer 25

Forms of mental treatment to cure nervous disorders

Question 26

Schizophrenia

Answer 26

Mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and omnipotence

Question 27

Subliminal

Answer 27

Below the threshold of conscious perception

Question 28

Trauma

Answer 28

Emotional experience that has a lasting psychic effect

Question 29

Anachronism

Answer 29

Anything that is out place in time

Question 30

Anon

Answer 30

Soon, shortly

Question 31

Antebellum

Answer 31

Before the war, especially before the American Civil War

Question 32

Antediluvian

Answer 32

Old-fashioned

Question 33

Atavism

Answer 33

“Father of a great-grandfather”
Reversion to a primitive type

Question 34

Augury

Answer 34

Art of prophecy, an omen

Question 35

Biennial

Answer 35

Happening every two years

Question 36

Chronology

Answer 36

Arrangement of events in time

Question 37

Diurnal

Answer 37

Daily, of the daytime

Question 38

Eon

Answer 38

Indefinite period of time

Question 39

Ephemeral

Answer 39

“Ephemeral memories are like bubbles - Fleeting and Pop!”

Short-lived

Question 40

Epoch

Answer 40

époque
Noteworthy period

Question 41

Generation

Answer 41

Period of time between birth of one group and its offspring

Question 42

Score

Answer 42

Twenty years

Question 43

Tercentenary

Answer 43

Period of 300 years