Week 5

Question 1

Ambivalent

Answer 1

: having or showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward something or someone : characterized by ambivalence

Ex: people whose relationship to their job is ambivalent, conflicted.

Americans are deeply ambivalent about the country’s foreign role. Isolationist yearnings coexist uneasily with superpower policies.

Question 2

To mug

Answer 2

Transitive verb

to assault usually with intent to rob

Question 3

To defrock

Answer 3

transitive ​verb

1 : to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office

Ex: a defrocked priest

Question 4

Fealty

Answer 4

intense fidelity

Ex: the fealty of country music fans to their favorite stars

Question 5

Diatribe

Answer 5

a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing

Question 6

Cosmogony

Answer 6

the creation or origin of the world or universe

Question 7

Mort

Answer 7

a great quantity or number

Question 8

Slovenly

Answer 8

untidy especially in personal appearance

Ex: He dressed in a slovenly manner.
for the sake of their image, the band members transformed themselves from clean-cut lads to slovenly rockers

Question 9

To confute

Answer 9

transitive ​verb
1 : to overwhelm in argument : refute conclusively

Ex: Elijah … confuted the prophets of Baal

Question 10

Carping

Answer 10

marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism

Ex: a peevish and carping old woman who is not a favorite at the nursing home