Vocabulary Week 3

Question 0

Plausible

Answer 0

Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible

Question 1

Penitent

Answer 1

Expressing remorse for one’s deeds

Question 2

Substantiated:

Answer 2

Supported with proof or evidence; verified

Question 3

Vindicated:

Answer 3

Free from blame

Question 4

Condescending

Answer 4

Treating people as weak or inferior

Question 5

Contemptuous

Answer 5

Feeling hatred; scornful

Question 6

Despotic

Answer 6

Exercising absolute power; tyrannical

Question 7

Dictatorial

Answer 7

Domineering; oppressively overbearing

Question 8

Disdain(n)

Answer 8

Contempt, scorn

Question 9

Disdain(v)

Answer 9

To regard or treat with contempt; to look down on

Question 10

Antistrophe:

Answer 10

Repetition of the same word or group of words in a paragraph in the end of sentences

Question 11

Antithesis:

Answer 11

Juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas

Question 12

Aphorismus

Answer 12

Statement that calls into question the definition of a word

Question 13

Aposiopesis

Answer 13

Breaking off or pausing speech for dramatic or emotional effect

Question 14

Apposition

Answer 14

Placing of two statements side by side, in which the second defines the first

Question 15

Assonance

Answer 15

Repetition of vowel sounds