Ch 19

Question 1

Apogee (n)

Answer 1

Farthest or highest point; culmination

Question 2

Connoisseur (n)

Answer 2

On informed and astute judge in matter of taste; expert

Question 3

Disabuse (v)

Answer 3

To undeceive, to set right

Question 4

Errant (adj)

Answer 4

Traveling, itinerant, peripatetic

Question 5

Fulminate (v)

Answer 5

To attack loudly or denounce

Question 6

Inimical (adj)

Answer 6

Damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly

Question 7

Philistine (n)

Answer 7

A crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values

Question 8

Rescind (v)

Answer 8

Ti invalidate, repeal, retract

Question 9

Sophistry (n)

Answer 9

Plausible but faulty logic ; fallacious reasoning

Question 10

Travesty (n)

Answer 10

Mockery, caricature, parody

Question 11

Apostate (n)

Answer 11

One who abandons long held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause

Question 12

Consequential (adj)

Answer 12

Pompouse, self-important

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Question 13

Convention (n)

Answer 13

Generally agreed upon practice or attitude

Question 14

Dissemble (v)

Answer 14

To disguise or conceal; to mislead

Question 15

Estimable (adj)

Answer 15

Worthy, formidable

Question 16

Insensible (adj)

Answer 16

Unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, numb

Question 17

Pine (v)

Answer 17

To yearn intensely, to lose vigor

Question 18

Risible (adj)

Answer 18

Hilarious, provoking laughter

• risible sight lol

Question 19

Specious (adj)

Answer 19

Seeming true, but actually false,

Misleadingly attractive

Question 20

Turpitude (n)

Answer 20

Depravity, wickedness

• moral turpitude