Chapter 22

Question 1

Abyss

Answer 1

Without bottom; seemingly bottomless pit or gulf; anything immeasurably deep

Question 2

Agonstic

Answer 2

Person who is not committed to believing in either the existence of nonexistence of God

Question 3

Amnesia

Answer 3

Loss of memory

Question 4

Amnesty

Answer 4

General pardon for an offense, including a political offense against a government

Question 5

Amorphous

Answer 5

Without definite form; shapeless; vague

Question 6

Anaerobic

Answer 6

Able to grow in the absence of oxygen

Question 7

Anemia

Answer 7

Condition of being without blood; red cell deficiency in the circulating blood; paleness; lack of vigor

Question 8

Anesthesia

Answer 8

Without feeling; partial or complete loss of the sense of pain, with or without loss of consciousness, artificially induced by drugs

Question 9

Anodyne

Answer 9

Without pain; drug that relives pain; anything that soothes or comforts

Question 10

Anomaly

Answer 10

Not regular; irregularity; departure from common rule; abnormality

Question 11

Anorexia

Answer 11

Loss of appetite, especially when prolonged

Question 12

Aphasia

Answer 12

Condition of not speaking; partial or complete loss of power to use and understand words

Question 13

Apolitical

Answer 13

Not connected with political matters; of no political significance; uninterested in politics

Question 14

Asexual

Answer 14

Occurring or produced without sexual action; sexless

Question 15

Asphyxiation

Answer 15

Condition of no throbbing or pulsation; loss of consciousness due to the lack of oxygen or presence of poisonous gases; suffocation

Question 16

Asylum

Answer 16

Without right of seizure; inviolable place where one can be free from arrest; protection; sanctuary; shelter

Question 17

Asymptomatic

Answer 17

Without evidence of disease; symptomless

Question 18

Atrophy

Answer 18

Condition of being without nourishment; wasting away or decrease in size of a body organ or tissue

Question 19

Atypical

Answer 19

Not typical; irregular; abnormal

Question 20

Abiogenesis

Answer 20

Theory that life can originate from no living matter; spontaneous generation