Word List 31

Question 1

aberration

Answer 1

n. wandering or staying away; in optics, failure of rays to focus

Question 2

abnegation

Answer 2

n. repudiation; self-sacrifice

Question 3

abut

Answer 3

v. border upon’ adjoin

Question 4

acclimate

Answer 4

v. adjust to climate

Question 5

acephalous

Answer 5

adj. headless

Question 6

acerbity

Answer 6

n. bitterness of speech and temper

Question 7

acquiescence

Answer 7

n. submission; compliance

Question 8

adjunct

Answer 8

n. something attached to but holding an inferior position

Question 9

adjure

Answer 9

v. request solemnly

Question 10

admonition

Answer 10

n. warning

Question 11

advert

Answer 11

v. refer to

Question 12

adulterated

Answer 12

adj. made impure or spoiled by the addition of inferior materials

Question 13

advent

Answer 13

n. arrival

Question 14

aegis

Answer 14

n. shield’ defense

Question 15

affable

Answer 15

adj. courteous

Question 16

aeon

Answer 16

n. long period of time; an age

Question 17

afferent

Answer 17

adj. carrying toward the center

Question 18

affidavit

Answer 18

n. written statement made under oath

Question 19

afflatus

Answer 19

n. ispiration

Question 20

agrarian

Answer 20

adj. pertaining to land or its cultivation

Question 21

agronomist

Answer 21

n. scientist engaged in the management of land

Question 22

amazon

Answer 22

n. female warrior

Question 23

ambivalence

Answer 23

n. the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

Question 24

amoreal

Answer 24

adj. nonmoral

Question 25

amortization

Answer 25

n. act of reducing a debt through partial payments

Question 26

anachronism

Answer 26

n. an error involving time in a story

Question 27

analgesic

Answer 27

adj. causing insensitivity to pain

Question 28

animus

Answer 28

n. hostile feeling or intent

Question 29

anneal

Answer 29

v. reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling

Question 30

anodyne

Answer 30

n. drug that relives pain; opiate

Question 31

aphasia

Answer 31

n. loss of speech due to injury

Question 32

apologue

Answer 32

n. moral fable

Question 33

apropos

Answer 33

prep. witch reference to; properly

Question 34

archetype

Answer 34

n. prototype; primitive pattern

Question 35

arrogate

Answer 35

v. claim without reasonable grounds

Question 36

arroyo

Answer 36

n. gully

Question 37

aseptic

Answer 37

adj. preventing putrefaction or blood poisoning by killing bacteria

Question 38

atavism

Answer 38

n. resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents

Question 39

atelier

Answer 39

n. workshop; studio

Question 40

aureole

Answer 40

n. sun's corona; halo

Question 41

auroral

Answer 41

adj. pertaining to the aurora borealis

Question 42

auscultation

Answer 42

n. act of listening to the heart or lungs to discover abnormalities

Question 43

avocation

Answer 43

n. secondary or minor occupation