Week 12

Question 1

International, adj.

Answer 1

Of, relating to, or affecting two or more nations.

Question 2

Interrupt, v.

Answer 2

To prevent (one) from proceeding by intrusive comment or action.

Question 3

Intricate, adj.

Answer 3

Having many complexly interrelating parts or elements; complicated.

Question 4

Invincible, adj.

Answer 4

Incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued.

Question 5

Inviolable, adj.

Answer 5

Secure from violation, assault or trespass.

Question 6

Irritate, v.

Answer 6

To rouse to impatience or anger.

Question 7

Ivory, adj.

Answer 7

Of a creamy white color.

Question 8

Jackknife, n.

Answer 8

A large clasp knife.

Question 9

Jaguar, n.

Answer 9

A large cat chiefly of central and South America that is larger and stockier that the leopard and is brownish yellow or buff with black spots.

Question 10

Jambalaya, n.

Answer 10

Rice cooked with ham, sausage, chicken, shrimp or oysters and usually tomato and seasoned with herbs.

Question 11

Janitor, n.

Answer 11

One who keeps the premises of an apartment, office, or other building clean and free of refuse, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs.

Question 12

Jargon, n.

Answer 12

The technical terminology or characteristic idiom of specialists or workers in a particular activity or area of knowledge.

Question 13

Jealousy, n.

Answer 13

Fear or wariness of being replaced, especially in regards to another’s affections.

Question 14

Jellyfish, n.

Answer 14

Any of numerous usually free-swimming marine coelenterates of the class Scyphozoa, having a gelatinous, tentacled, often bell-shaped medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle.

Question 15

Jeopardize, v.

Answer 15

To expose to loss or injury; imperil.

Question 16

Journal, n.

Answer 16

A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.

Question 17

Journalism, n.

Answer 17

An academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the editorial or business management of a news medium.

Question 18

Journey, n.

Answer 18

The act of traveling from one place to another; a trip.

Question 19

Judicial, adj.

Answer 19

Of, relating to, or proper to courts of law or to the administration of justice.

Question 20

Judiciary, n.

Answer 20

A system of courts of law for the administration of justice.

Question 21

Juggler, n.

Answer 21

One skilled in keeping several objects in motion in the air at the same time by alternately tossing and catching them.

Question 22

Jungle, n.

Answer 22

Land densely overgrown with tropical vegetation.

Question 23

Junket, n.

Answer 23

A trip or tour.

Question 24

Jurisdiction, n.

Answer 24

The limits or territory within which any particular power may be exercised.

Question 25

Jurisprudence, n.

Answer 25

The philosophy or science of law.

Question 26

Justice, n.

Answer 26

The quality of being just; fairness.

Question 27

Justifiable, adj.

Answer 27

Having sufficient grounds for justification; possible to justify.

Question 28

Juvenile, adj.

Answer 28

Or of relating to childhood.

Question 29

Kaleidoscope, n.

Answer 29

An instrument that contains loose fragments of colored glass confined between two flat plates and two plane mirrors placed so that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of forms.

Question 30

Kangaroo, n.

Answer 30

Any of various herbivorous marsupials of the family macropodidae of Australia and adjacent islands, having short forelimbs, large hind limbs adapted for leaping, and a long tapered tail.