Vocal Lesson 4

Question 1

bailiff

Answer 1

an official employed by a British sheriff to serve writs and make arrests and executions; a minor officer of some U.S. courts usually serving as a messenger or usher

Question 2

magnanimous

Answer 2

showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit; showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind

Question 3

catechism

Answer 3

oral instruction; a manual for catechizing; a set of formal questions put as a test; something resembling a catechism especially in being a rote response or formulaic statement

Question 4

decrepit

Answer 4

wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age; worn out; fallen into ruin or disrepair

Question 5

impertinence

Answer 5

the quality or state of being impertinent: such as incivility, indolence (rudeness), or irrelevance or inappropriateness; an instance of impertinence

Question 6

antiquarian

Answer 6

of or relating to antiquarians or antiquities

Question 7

terrestrial

Answer 7

of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants; Sundance in scope or character (prosaic); of or relating to land as distant from air or water

Question 8

ingenious

Answer 8

showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; lacking craft or subtlety

Question 9

sidereal

Answer 9

of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations (astral)

Question 10

papal

Answer 10

of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church; resembling a pope or that of a pope

Question 11

proliferate

Answer 11

intransitive verb: to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring; to increase in number as if by proliferating (multiply);
transitive verb: to cause to grow by proliferating; to cause to increase in number or extent as if by proliferating

Question 12

hermetic

Answer 12

relating to or characterized by subjects that are mysterious and difficult to understand

Question 13

frivolity

Answer 13

the quality of state of being frivolous; that is, lacking in seriousness; a frivolous act or thing

Question 14

providential

Answer 14

of, relating to, or determined by providence, divine guidance or care, or God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding the human destiny

Question 15

haughty

Answer 15

blatantly and disdainfully proud; having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior