Week 6

Question 1

aversion

Answer 1

(noun) an intense feeling of dislike or disgust

He was remarkable for ugliness, and was an object of aversion to his parents.

Question 2

bent

Answer 2

(noun) an inclination or tendency

Question 3

nonplused

Answer 3

(adj) baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do

He would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea

Question 4

penury

Answer 4

(noun) poverty; destitution

The result of his experiments was that he found himself completely impoverished, and lived in penury for the remainder of his life.

Question 5

quiescence

Answer 5

(noun) stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

It is a region of quiescence or of faulting, but not of folding.

Question 6

solvent

Answer 6

(adj) able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

But nothing is more certain than that his thought is a strong solvent of the intuitionalist way of thinking; and he has had an immense influence in many directions.

Question 7

stint

Answer 7

(verb) to restrain; to be sparing or frugal

A collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint

Question 8

veneration

Answer 8

(verb) extreme respect and reverence; worship

The traditional veneration of saints