Week 1

Question 1

paradigm

Answer 1

A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something.

Question 2

bureaucrats

Answer 2

someone working in a bureaucracy:

Question 3

bureaucracy

Answer 3

a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully

Question 4

reproach

Answer 4

express to (someone) one’s disapproval of or disappointment in their actions.

Question 5

ideology

Answer 5

a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Question 6

affair

Answer 6

an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to

Question 7

reform

Answer 7

make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it.

Question 8

consternation

Answer 8

a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected.

Question 9

exhortation

Answer 9

an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something

Question 10

obscurity

Answer 10

the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant.

Question 11

antithetical

Answer 11

directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible.

Question 12

immutability

Answer 12

unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

Question 13

parochial

Answer 13

relating to a Church parish or having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.

Question 14

pauperisation

Answer 14

the process of making a person or group very poor; impoverishment.

Question 15

legions

Answer 15

a vast number of people or things.

Question 16

aptitude

Answer 16

a natural ability to do something.

Question 17

anathema

Answer 17

something or someone that one vehemently dislikes

Question 18

prosaic

Answer 18

having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality.

Question 19

appellation

Answer 19

the action of giving a name to someone or something.

Question 20

empiricist

Answer 20

a person who supports the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

Question 21

tutelage

Answer 21

protection of or authority over someone or something; guardianship.

Question 22

postulate

Answer 22

a thing suggested or assumed as true as the basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.

Question 23

ameliorate

Answer 23

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

Question 24

Aotearoa

Answer 24

Maori term for New Zealand