Vocabulary VIII

Question 1

Flux

Answer 1

A flowing or flow

Question 2

Patch

Answer 2

Sector.

Area.

Question 3

Cipher

Answer 3

Zero.

Nonentity.
Person of no influence.

Question 4

Codify

Answer 4

To arrange in a systematic arrangement.

Question 5

Collate

Answer 5

To gather and arrange.

Question 6

Cull

Answer 6

To collect.

Gather.

Question 7

Compile

Answer 7

To gather together

Question 8

Countenance

Answer 8

noun.
(koun-tn-uns)
Facial expression or facial expression.
“He wore a sad countenance”.

verb.
To permit or tolerate.
“You should not have countenanced his rudeness”.

Question 9

Way-station

Answer 9

A station intermediate between principal stations.

Question 10

Flush

Answer 10

Full.

Overflowing.

Question 11

Accretion

Answer 11

Build-up.

Growth.

Question 12

Complicit

Answer 12

involved in an illegal activity.

Question 13

Profligate

Answer 13

Immoral and excessive.

Question 14

Dissipated

Answer 14

Shamelessly devoted to pleasure

Question 15

Dissolute

Answer 15

Indifferent to moral restraints.

Improper and immoral.

Question 16

Licentious

Answer 16

Sexually unrestrained.

Lewd.

Question 17

Libertine

Answer 17

A person who is sexually or morally unrestrained.

Question 18

Pious

Answer 18

Having or showing reverence for god or religion.

Question 19

Misnomer

Answer 19

A misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.

Question 20

Sapient

Answer 20

Intelligent.

Enlightened.

Question 21

Auto

Answer 21

A combining form meaning “self”, “same”.

Example: autograph, auto coup

Question 22

Standardize

Answer 22

To bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like.
Example: to standardize manufactured parts.

Question 23

Discrete

Answer 23

Apart or detached from others.

Separate.

Question 24

Celestial

Answer 24

Pertaining to the sky or universe

Question 25

Homogenous

Answer 25

Composed of parts which are all alike.

opposite of heterogeneous

Question 26

Heterogeneous

Answer 26

Composed of parts which are dissimilar.

opposite of homogeneous

Question 27

Autotroph

Answer 27

(aw-tuh-trawff)
An organism that creates its own food without depending on other organisms.

Example: plants using photosynthesis

Question 28

Heterotroph

Answer 28

(het-er-uh-trawff)
(aka “consumer”)
An organism in a food chain that is dependent on producers to obtain nutrients.

Question 29

Detritivore

Answer 29

(di-try-ti-vore)
An organism that uses organic waste as a food source.
- certain insects

Question 30

Trophic

Answer 30

(traw-fik)

Of or relating to nutrition.

Question 31

Foment

Answer 31

To instigate or promote.

Question 32

Truncated

Answer 32

(trung-kay-ted)
Shortened by having a part cut out.

Cut short.

Question 33

Proconsul

Answer 33

An appointed administrator over an occupied area.