Vocabulary VI

Question 1

Impede

Answer 1

Hinder.

Obstruct.

Question 2

Breach

Answer 2

An opening.
Break into.
To make an opening.

Question 3

Buck

Answer 3

Go against.
Resist strongly.

“He bucked the trend” (to go in the opposite direction of the tend)

Question 4

Albatross

Answer 4

Something burdensome that impedes action or progress.

Question 5

Cache

Answer 5

Nest egg.

Reserves.

Question 6

Abate

Answer 6

Lessen.

Diminish.

Question 7

Metric

Answer 7

An indicator.

A standard for measuring or evaluating something.

Question 8

Primer

Answer 8

A book for teaching

Question 9

Co-opt

Answer 9

To appropriate as one’s own.

Question 10

Appropriate

Answer 10

To seize.
Take possession of.

Expropriate.

Question 11

Parcel

Answer 11

To distribute in portions.

To “parcel out”.

Question 12

Correlate

Answer 12

To have a mutual or complementary relation.

Question 13

Spur

Answer 13

To urge or impel to action.

Question 14

Agribusiness

Answer 14

The businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.

Question 15

Quantify

Answer 15

Appraise.
Express the quantity of.
Rate.
Rank.

Question 16

Quantitative

Answer 16

Related to the measuring of quantity.

Question 17

Qualitative

Answer 17

Pertaining to quality or qualities.

Question 18

Rendition

Answer 18

The legal process of sending a suspected criminal to another country to be interrogated or detained.

Question 19

Semiotics

Answer 19

The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior.

Question 20

Denote

Answer 20

To represent by a symbol

Question 21

Propagate

Answer 21

To cause to multiply.
To reproduce.
To transmit or spread.

Question 22

Rhetorical

Answer 22

Speech that is marked by exaggeration bombast and is used mostly for effect.

Question 23

Rhetorical question

Answer 23

A question asked to produce an effect or create an assertion, not to get a reply.

Question 24

Opaque

Answer 24

Not transparent.

Not allowing light to penetrate.

Question 25

Translucent

Answer 25

Permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that objects on the other side are not clearly visible.

Question 26

Retrograde

Answer 26

Moving backwards

Question 27

Sulfur

Answer 27

(S)
A nonmetallic chemical element that burns with a suffocating blue flame and is used in making gunpowder, matches, sulfuric acid, and insecticide.

Question 28

Binary

Answer 28

Consisting of, or involving two.

Question 29

“Cord-cutting”

Answer 29

To “cut the cord” is a euphemism for when a viewer opts for Web-based media as opposed to tv.

Question 30

Outlier

Answer 30

Something that lies outside the main body or group.

Question 31

Auspicious

Answer 31

Promising success.

Question 32

Junket

Answer 32

A pleasure excursion.

Question 33

Definitive

Answer 33

Absolute.

Final.

Question 34

Concurrent

Answer 34

Happening at the same time

Question 35

Ascribe

Answer 35

To credit to.
“Ascribe to”

Acredit