Week 1 - Deck 3

Question 1

ribald

Answer 1

adj. referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way:

“a ribald comment”

Question 2

vehement

Answer 2

adj. showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense:

“Her voice was low but vehement.”
“vehement criticism”

Question 3

Thoreau

Answer 3

(1817-62), US essayist and poet. A key proponent of transcendentalism, he is best know for Walden, or LIfe in the Woods, an account of a two-year experiment in self-sufficiency. His essay on civil disobedience influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s policy of passive resistance.

Question 4

impecunious

Answer 4

adj. having little or no money:

“a titled but impecunious family”

Question 5

interpolate

Answer 5

v. [with obj.] insert (something) between fixed points:
“Illustrations were interpolated in the text.”
- insert (words) in a book or other text, esp. in order to give a false impression of its date.

Question 6

milieu

Answer 6

n. (pl. milieux pronunc. the same, or milieus) a person’s social environment:

“he grew up in a military milieu”