Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Question 1

Advertisement

Answer 1

A public notice, especially in print

Question 2

Amalgamate

Answer 2

To mix or merge so as to make a combination

Question 3

Autonomous

Answer 3

Having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent

Question 4

Bemoan

Answer 4

1. To express distress or grief over; lament
2. To regard with regret or disproval

Question 5

Bicameral

Answer 5

Having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body

Question 6

Cohesion

Answer 6

The action or fact of forming a united whole

Question 7

Dogma

Answer 7

An official system of principle or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc, as of a church

Question 8

Handicraft

Answer 8

1. Manual skill
2. An art, craft, or trade in which the skilled use of hand is required

Question 9

Hostilities

Answer 9

A hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity antagonism

Question 10

Influx

Answer 10

1. Act to flowing in
2. An inflow

Question 11

Intermittent

Answer 11

Stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again

Question 12

Inundate

Answer 12

1. To flood; cover or overspread
2. Overwhelm

Question 13

Lascivious

Answer 13

Inclined to lustfulness; lewd

Question 14

Manumission

Answer 14

Release from slavery

Question 15

Pestilence

Answer 15

A deadly or virulent epidemic disease

Question 16

Piety

Answer 16

Reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligation

Question 17

Privy

Answer 17

1. Participating in the knowledge of something private or secret
2. law a person participating directly in or having a derivative interest in a legal transaction

Question 18

Propagate

Answer 18

To reproduce, as organism does

Question 19

Periwig

Answer 19

A wig, especially a peruke

Question 20

Rectitude

Answer 20

Rightness of principle, or conduct; moral virtue

Question 21

Subsistence

Answer 21

The action of fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level

Question 22

Swell

Answer 22

To grow in bulk

Question 23

Tenure

Answer 23

The holding or possessing of anything

Question 24

Veneer

Answer 24

To make something look elegant when it’s not

Question 25

Yeoman

Answer 25

A farmer who cultivates his own land