Unit 11

Question 1

(adj) having or showing good judgment

Answer 1

judicious

Question 2

(v) to settle a dispute or argument

Answer 2

adjudicate

Question 3

(adj) not concerned about morality

Answer 3

amoral

Question 4

(n) attitudes and behaviors that are so firmly fixed that they are followed like laws

Answer 4

mores

Question 5

(adj) gloomy; bad-tempered

Answer 5

morose

Question 6

(v) to make up for doing wrong

Answer 6

expiate

Question 7

(adj) lacking respect for what should be worshipped

Answer 7

impious

Question 8

(v) to set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose

Answer 8

consecrate

Question 9

(adj) very bad; hateful

Answer 9

execrable

Question 10

(adj) so scared or revered as to be off-limits

Answer 10

sacrosanct

Question 11

(n) clever trickery; deception

Answer 11

artifice

Question 12

(adj) without strategy or deceit; naive

Answer 12

artless

Question 13

(adj) not having power to move; slow to act

Answer 13

inert

Question 14

(n) an image that best represents something; a symbol

Answer 14

icon

Question 15

(n) a person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in

Answer 15

iconoclaust

Question 16

(n) the study of a group of representative pictures and symbols

Answer 16

iconography

Question 17

(v) to seek to be like; to admiringly mimic

Answer 17

emulate

Question 18

(adj) impossible to imitate or copy

Answer 18

inimitable

Question 19

(n) one who supplies or sells

Answer 19

purveyor

Question 20

(n) a clause or statement that gives instructions for a potential event or situation

Answer 20

proviso

Question 21

(n) range of skills or authority; capability

Answer 21

purview