Vocab 841 - 860

Question 1

Rubricate

Answer 1

– verb

1) to mark or color with red.

Related forms

rubrication, noun
rubricator, noun

Question 2

Edutainment

Answer 2

– noun

1) programs that are educational & entertaining.

Question 3

Larrikin

Answer 3

– noun/adjective

1) a hoodlum.
2) rowdy.

Question 4

Intercessor

Answer 4

– noun

1) a person who intercedes.

Question 5

Sardonic

Answer 5

– adjective

1) bitter, cynical, sneering: a sardonic grin.

Question 6

Evanesce

Answer 6

– verb

1) to fade away.

Question 7

Rallentando

Answer 7

– adjective

1) slackening or becoming slower: A rallentando movement.

Question 8

Gleed

Answer 8

– noun

1) a glowing coal.

Question 9

Niveous

Answer 9

– adjective

1) resembling snow or snowy.

Question 10

Remunerative

Answer 10

– adjective

1) profitable: remunerative work.

Related forms
– Remuneration, noun

Question 11

Incunabula

Answer 11

– noun

1) the earliest stages/first traces of something: The library contains several incunabula of early Dutch literature.

Question 12

Supposition

Answer 12

– noun

1) assumption or hypothesis.

-- Related forms
suppositional, adjective
suppositionally, adverb
nonsuppositional, adjective
nonsuppositionally, adverb
unsuppositional, adjective

Question 13

Seminal

Answer 13

– adjective

1) highly original and influencing the development of future events: a seminal artist; seminal ideas.

-- Related forms
seminality, noun
seminally, adverb
interseminal, adjective
preseminal, adjective

Question 14

Impute

Answer 14

– verb

1) to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.

-- Related forms
imputable, adjective
imputative, adjective
imputatively, adverb
imputativeness, noun
imputedly, adverb

Question 15

Sororal

Answer 15

– adjective

1) relating to sisterhood.

– Related forms

sororally, adverb

Question 16

Fritter

Answer 16

– verb

1) to squander: to fritter away one’s money.

– Related forms

fritterer, noun
unfrittered, adjective

Question 17

Dowie

Answer 17

– adjective

1) dull; melancholy; dismal.

– Related forms

dowily, adverb
dowiness, noun

Question 18

Cicerone

Answer 18

– noun

1) a guide. (person)

Question 19

Periphrasis

Answer 19

– noun

1) the use of an unnecessarily long form of expression.

Question 20

Mackle

Answer 20

– noun

1) a blur in printing, as from a double impression.