Week 23

Question 1

agoraphobia

Answer 1

the fear of crowds or gathering places

Question 2

carnophobia

Answer 2

the fear of meat

Question 3

hydrophobia

Answer 3

the fear of drinking water or liquids, another name for rabies, which causes painful spasms in the throat while trying to swallow

Question 4

panphobia

Answer 4

the fear of all things

Question 5

pyrophobia

Answer 5

the fear of fire

Question 6

antebellum

Answer 6

before the war; in the United States, it refers to the period before the Civil war

Question 7

antecedent

Answer 7

a thing that goes before

Question 8

phobia, phobe

Answer 8

fear dread

Question 9

ante ant anti

Answer 9

before, in front of

Question 10

ion tion sion

Answer 10

the action process state condition or result of

Question 11

antediluvian

Answer 11

pertaining to the period before the washing away, as in great flood; very old or antiquated

Question 12

ante meridian

Answer 12

before the mid day; before noon; abbreviated am

Question 13

antepenultimate

Answer 13

characterized by being before the almost last; third from the end

Question 14

anterior

Answer 14

more in front of; situated at the front; going before

Question 15

cicumlocution

Answer 15

the act of speaking around a subject, not directly; rambling

Question 16

compassion

Answer 16

the condition of sharing a felling of pity and suffering together

Question 17

contortion

Answer 17

the action of twisting together

Question 18

convention

Answer 18

ten result of a group coming together or assembling for some specific purpose

Question 19

digression

Answer 19

the result of stepping apart from a main topic; deviation

Question 20

retraction

Answer 20

the act of pulling back a statement promise or opinion