CD9

Question 1

mnemonic

Answer 1

Something that helps you remember something else

Question 2

pedagogy

Answer 2

Teaching, or more precisely the activity of educating or instructing, and the methods used to instruct

Question 3

matriculate

Answer 3

To enroll in a college or university in order to study for a degree

Question 4

tutorial

Answer 4

A private session with a teacher or tutor where you can get intensive coaching on a subject

Question 5

annus

Answer 5

A recording of events, a reporting of history that is just a chronological recitation of facts

Question 6

metropolitan

Answer 6

Pertaining to a city, or a larger urban settlement

Question 7

amenity

Answer 7

Something that makes your life easier or more pleasant

Question 8

denizen

Answer 8

Someone who lives in a certain place, a local inhabitant

Question 9

heterogeneous

Answer 9

Coming from different sources, made up of things that are not the same kind

Question 10

urbane

Answer 10

Another word for sophisticated

Question 11

bucolic

Answer 11

Of the country side

Question 12

flora

Answer 12

Vegetation or plant life that grows in a certain area

Question 13

fauna

Answer 13

Animals that

are native to a certain area

Question 14

microcosm

Answer 14

A miniature version of something larger

Question 15

dearth

Answer 15

A lack of something, or an insufficient number of things that are

Question 16

garrulous

Answer 16

Too talkative, too chatty

Question 17

candor

Answer 17

Frankness or outspokenness

Question 18

aver

Answer 18

To declare or assert something is true

Question 19

pontificate

Answer 19

To express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously

Question 20

dissertation

Answer 20

A formal document that presents original research to a panel

Question 21

contentious

Answer 21

Quarrelsome or argumentative, when speaking of a person

Question 22

animosity

Answer 22

animosity

Question 23

punitive

Answer 23

Punishing or imposing a penalty on someone

Question 24

adverse

Answer 24

In a negative way

Question 25

misanthropic

Answer 25

Disliking everyone, distrusting everyone, hating all mankind

Question 26

cognitive

Answer 26

Refers to the process of thinking itself

Question 27

intuition

Answer 27

Instinctive knowledge, rather than learned knowledge

Question 28

deduce

Answer 28

To apply logic to a problem

Question 29

esoteric

Answer 29

Mystical or hidden knowledge

Question 30

perspicacious

Answer 30

Able to perceive hidden things