arfticle quiz #6

Question 1

abdicate

Answer 1

to give up one’s responsibilities

Question 2

acquiesce

Answer 2

to accept, comply, or submit tacitly

Question 3

appropriations

Answer 3

something that has been appropiated

Question 4

brethren

Answer 4

a religious term for brothers

Question 5

conjure

Answer 5

make someone to do something

Question 6

consanguinity

Answer 6

related by blood or common ancestors

Question 7

depository

Answer 7

a place to put something away for safekeeping

Question 8

magnanimity

Answer 8

the quality of being magnanimous (generous)

Question 9

perfidy

Answer 9

the quality of being faithless

Question 10

redress

Answer 10

to set right

Question 11

usurpations

Answer 11

an unlawful seizing

Question 12

querulous

Answer 12

complaining in an whining manner

Question 13

interdict

Answer 13

to forbid in a usually formal manner

Question 14

equable

Answer 14

not varying (stable)

Question 15

latent

Answer 15

present and capable of emerging but not now visible, obvious

Question 16

facade

Answer 16

the face of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street

Question 17

copings

Answer 17

the top, typically sloping, course of brick or stone wall

Question 18

interminable

Answer 18

having or seeming to have an end

Question 19

trodden

Answer 19

to set down the foot in walking (tread)

Question 20

amicable

Answer 20

friendliness

Question 21

effusion

Answer 21

unrestrained expression of words

Question 22

efflux

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the flowing out of a paritcular substance

Question 23

stratagems

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a plan or a scheme esp. one used to outwit an opponet

Question 24

dally

Answer 24

act or move slowly

Question 25

countenance

Answer 25

the face as an indication of mood, emotion

Question 26

spartan

Answer 26

marked by strict self- discipline and self-denial

Question 27

rout

Answer 27

defeat and cause to retreat in disorder

Question 28

sublime

Answer 28

very beautiful or good

Question 29

superfluous

Answer 29

exceeding what is neccesary

Question 30

myriad

Answer 30

a countless or extremely great number

Question 31

succint

Answer 31

marked by compact precise expression w/o wasted words

Question 32

lucid

Answer 32

expressed clearly

Question 33

culminate

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to reach a climax or point of highest development

Question 34

posterity

Answer 34

all future generation of people

Question 35

conduce

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to lead or tend to a particular result

Question 36

apprise

Answer 36

to inform

Question 37

appertaining

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to belong or be connected as a rightful part

Question 38

diminution

Answer 38

a reduction in the size, extent of something

Question 39

zeal

Answer 39

eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something

Question 40

arduous

Answer 40

involving or requiring strenuous effort

Question 41

involiable

Answer 41

never to be broken

Question 42

solicitude

Answer 42

the state of being concerned or anxious

Question 43

indulgent

Answer 43

willing to allow someone to have or enjoy something even though it may not be proper

Question 44

artifices

Answer 44

clever or cunning devices

Question 45

palladiuim

Answer 45

a safeguard of protection

Question 46

exalt

Answer 46

hold (someone or something) in very high regard

Question 47

appellation

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an identifying name or title

Question 48

requisite

Answer 48

made necessary by particular circumstances

Question 49

endeavor

Answer 49

to strive to achieve

Question 50

expedients

Answer 50

something done or used to achieve a particular end

Question 51

acquiescence

Answer 51

that act of agreeing

Question 52

salutary

Answer 52

producing good effects

Question 53

assuage

Answer 53

the lessen the severity of

Question 54

maxims

Answer 54

a general truth

Question 55

inveterate

Answer 55

firmly established by long persistance

Question 56

antipathy

Answer 56

deep-seated feeling of dislike

Question 57

pernicious

Answer 57

highly injurious

Question 58

odium

Answer 58

the state or fact of being subjected to hatred

Question 59

insidious

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a particular habit unlikely to change

Question 60

nominal

Answer 60

name in only

Question 61

consecrate

Answer 61

make or declare

Question 62

cartel

Answer 62

an association of manufacturers

Question 63

patronizing

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to act as a patron of

Question 64

probative

Answer 64

serving or tending to prove

Question 65

precedent

Answer 65

an earlier occurrence of something similar

Question 66

hearsay

Answer 66

rumor

Question 67

ex parte

Answer 67

a latin term for "from by or for"