Week 10 Vocabulary

Question 1

Cascade

Answer 1

Like a waterfall;A jackpot makes coins cascade from the machine.

Question 2

Palisade

Answer 2

Protection in the form of a wall or wall-like structure; Colonists built palisades around their villages to protect them.

Question 3

Fusillade

Answer 3

Rapid outburst; The aircraft received a fusillade of gun fire.

Question 4

Parable

Answer 4

Short story with a lesson or moral;The Bible is full of parables.

Question 5

Paradigm

Answer 5

Model;example;pattern;Michael is a paradigm of a professional basketball player.

Question 6

Patriarch

Answer 6

Leader;male in charge or head of something; Abraham is a patriarch of the Hebrew religion.

Question 7

Maladroit

Answer 7

Clumsy;awkward; Beth demonstrated her maladroit condition by knocking over john (& his desk)

Question 8

Malaise

Answer 8

Illness; Severe malaise caused half the class to be absent.

Question 9

Malice

Answer 9

Wanting to cause harm to see others suffer, Most people feel malice towards telemarketers

Question 10

Malodor

Answer 10

bad odor; Barnyards are notorious for their malodor.

Question 11

techni

Answer 11

Skill,art; Technology, Technique

Question 12

Therm

Answer 12

Heat; Thermostat, thermometer,thermal

Question 13

thesis

Answer 13

place,put; parenthesis, thesis

Question 14

tom

Answer 14

cut;atom;tomahawk

Question 15

tort,tors

Answer 15

Twist; torture,torso, contortion

Question 16

tox

Answer 16

Poison Toxic,intoxicated,detox

Question 17

turbo

Answer 17

Disturb;Disturbance,turbo,turbulence

Question 18

ultima

Answer 18

last; ultimate, ultimatum

Question 19

Ultra

Answer 19

Beyond, exceedingly; Ultraviolet,ultra,ultrasonic,ultrasound

Question 20

unda

Answer 20

wave; rdundant,undulate (roll or rise&swell)