WPME Chapter 14; Common phenomenon and occurences

Question 1

penury

Answer 1

abject poverty, complete lack of financial resources

Question 2

abject

Answer 2

Most unfortunate or miserableShowing utter resignation or hopelessness

Question 3

penurious

Answer 3

stingy, closed fisted, niggardly

Question 4

parsimonious

Answer 4

half of penurious

Question 5

indigence

Answer 5

mild degree of poverty

Question 6

destitution

Answer 6

penury

Question 7

straitened

Answer 7

Bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

Question 8

affluent

Answer 8

Rich and their wealth is increasing

Question 9

opulence

Answer 9

> > affluence the one’s with Rolls-royce

Question 10

confluence

Answer 10

flow together

Question 11

vicarious

Answer 11

second hand experienceeg: feel pain by empathy

Question 12

epheral

Answer 12

anything that is short lived

Question 13

evanescence

Answer 13

it’s here, and before you comprehend its gone

Question 14

adolescent

Answer 14

beginning to grow up

Question 15

evansce

Answer 15

begin to vanish

Question 16

convalsce

Answer 16

begin to get well after illness

Question 17

putrescent

Answer 17

becoming to become putrid

Question 18

obsolescent

Answer 18

beginning to become obsolete

Question 19

euphemism

Answer 19

a word or expression that has been substituted for another that is likely to offend

Question 20

euphony

Answer 20

pleasant sound

Question 21

eulogy

Answer 21

funeral speech

Question 22

epilogue

Answer 22

after-words

Question 23

prologue

Answer 23

before-words

Question 24

euphoria

Answer 24

good feeling, a sense of mental buoyancy and physical well being

Question 25

euthnasia

Answer 25

good death

Question 26

badinage

Answer 26

half teasing, non malicious, frivolous banter

Question 27

persiflage

Answer 27

badinage

Question 28

cliche

Answer 28

pattern of words so old, worn, and threadbare that only banal, unimaginative speakers and writers ever use it

Question 29

bromide

Answer 29

any trite, dull, probably fallacious remark that shows little evidence of original thinking

Question 30

platitude

Answer 30

cliche or bromide used with an air of novelty that as if he has just made it up

Question 31

anodyne

Answer 31

a drug that allays pain without curing an illness

Question 32

allays

Answer 32

Tastelessly showy

Question 33

bovine

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cow like, stolid, patient, unexitable

Question 34

stolid

Answer 34

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

Question 35

leonine

Answer 35

like a lion in appearance or temperament

Question 36

canine

Answer 36

like a dog

Question 37

feline

Answer 37

catlike, feline grace, (insultingly) of feline temperament

Question 38

porcine

Answer 38

piglike

Question 39

vulpine

Answer 39

foxl like in appearance or temperament, for shrewdness of fox

Question 40

ursine

Answer 40

bearlike, ursa major

Question 41

lupine

Answer 41

wolflike

Question 42

equine

Answer 42

horse like

Question 43

nostalgia

Answer 43

a keen, almost physical longing for associations or places of the past

Question 44

cacophony

Answer 44

harsh sounding ear offending word

Question 45

telephone

Answer 45

sound from afar

Question 46

euphony

Answer 46

pleasant sound

Question 47

phonograph

Answer 47

writer of sound

Question 48

phonetics

Answer 48

the science of sounds of language

Question 49

phonics

Answer 49

science of sound

Question 50

voracious

Answer 50

devouring, hence greedy and gluttonous,could be voracious in pursuit of money, pleasure

Question 51

ubiquitous

Answer 51

omnipresent

Question 52

omnibus

Answer 52

for all including all

Question 53

carnelian

Answer 53

a reddish gemstone

Question 54

carnival

Answer 54

an exuberant or riotous merrymaking or festivities

Question 55

exuberant

Answer 55

1. Joyously unrestrained2. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

Question 56

carnal

Answer 56

used as carnal pleasures or carnal appetite signifying pleasures or appetite of flesh and hence is sensual, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious

Question 57

carnage

Answer 57

great destruction of life as in war or mass murders

Question 58

reincarnation

Answer 58

a rebirth or reappearence

Question 59

incarnate

Answer 59

in the fleshas a verb is to embody, give bodily for to or make real

Question 60

cladestine

Answer 60

calm secretly working out of a plan that is dangerous or illegal

Question 61

surreptitious

Answer 61

syn for clandestine but clandestine plans and surreptitious if of movements or actions.