Word List I

Question 1

Ichthyology (n.)

Answer 1

Study of fish. Jacques Cousteau’s programs about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyology.

Question 2

Icon (n.)

Answer 2

Religious image; idol. The icons on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.

Question 3

Iconoclastic (adj.)

Answer 3

Attacking cherished traditions. Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock conventional theatergoers with his radical plays.

Question 4

Ideology (n.)

Answer 4

System of ideas characteristic of a group or culture. For people who had grown up believing in Communist ideology, it was hard to adjust to capitalism.

Question 5

Idiom (n.)

Answer 5

Expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words; distinctive style. The phrase “to lose one’s marbles” is an idiom: if I say that Joe has lost his marbles, I’m not asking you to find them for him. I’m telling you idiomatically that he’s crazy.