Chapter 8

Question 0

Exalt (v.)

Answer 0

to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate: He was exalted to the position of president.
to praise; extol: to exalt someone to the skies.
to stimulate, as the imagination: The lyrics of Shakespeare exalted the audience.
to intensify, as a color: complementary colors exalt each other.
Obsolete . to elate, as with pride or joy.

Question 1

Factotum (n.)

Answer 1

a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
any employee or official having many different responsibilities.

Question 2

Exult (v.)

Answer 2

to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant: They exulted over their victory.
Obsolete . to leap, especially for joy.

Question 3

Effete (v.)

Answer 3

lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete, overrefined society.
exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out: an effete political force.
unable to produce; sterile.

Question 4

Factitious (adj.)

Answer 4

not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
made; manufactured: a decoration of factitious flowers and leaves.

Question 5

Factious (adj.)

Answer 5

given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
pertaining to or proceeding from faction: factious quarrels.

Question 6

Facetious (adj.)

Answer 6

not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
amusing; humorous.
lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.

Question 7

Ennui (n.)

Answer 7

a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

Question 8

Distrait (adj.)

Answer 8

inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.

Question 9

Dowdy (adj.)

Answer 9

not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
not neat or tidy; shabby.

Question 10

Forbearance (n.)

Answer 10

the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
forbearingconduct or quality; patient endurance; self-control.
an abstaining from the enforcement of a right.
a creditor’s giving of indulgence after the day originally fixed for payment.

Question 11

Ford (a.)

Answer 11

a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.

Question 12

Forensic (adj.)

Answer 12

pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
adapted or suited to argumentation; rhetorical.

Question 13

Geniality (n.)

Answer 13

warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial: a genial disposition; a genial host.
favorable for life, growth, or comfort; pleasantly warm; comfortably mild: the genial climate of Hawaii.
characterized by genius.

Question 14

Gratuitous (adj.)

Answer 14

given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: a gratuitous insult.
Law. given without receiving any return value.

Question 15

Filch (v.)

Answer 15

to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.

Question 16

Gall (v.)

Answer 16

impudence; effrontery.
bile, especially that of an animal.
something bitter or severe.
bitterness of spirit; rancor.

Question 17

Gregarious (adj.)

Answer 17

fond of the company of others; sociable.
living in flocks or herds, as animals.
Botany . growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
pertaining to a flock or crowd.

Question 18

Flit (v.)

Answer 18

to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
to flutter, as a bird.
to pass quickly, as time: hours flitting by.
Chiefly Scot. and North England .
to depart or die.
to change one’s residence.

Question 19

Filial (v.)

Answer 19

of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial obedience.
noting or having the relation of a child to a parent.
Genetics. pertaining to the sequence of generations following the parental generation, each generation being designated by an F followed by a subscript number indicating its place in the sequence.

Question 20

Gentry (n.)

Answer 20

wellborn and well-bred people.
(in England) the class below the nobility.
an upper or ruling class; aristocracy.
those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, especially those owning large tracts of land.
(used with a plural verb) people, especially considered as a specific group, class, or kind: The polo crowd doesn’t go there, but these hockey gentry do.
the state or condition of being a gentleman.