Helpful Vocab

Question 1

Elliptical

Answer 1

Using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand

Question 2

Salacious

Answer 2

Treating sexual manners in an indecent way and typically conveying undue interests in or enjoyment of the subject

Lustful

Question 3

Punitive

Answer 3

Inflicting or intended as punishment

(Tax) extremely high

Question 4

Ignominious

Answer 4

Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 5

Stigmatizing

Answer 5

Describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval

Mark with a stigmata

Question 6

Orthodoxy

Answer 6

Authorized or generally accepted theory doctrine or practice

The whole community of Orthodox Jews or orthodox Christian

Question 7

Provinciality

Answer 7

An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire

Question 8

Agrarianism

Answer 8

A person who advocates a redistribution of landed property especially as part of a social movement

Question 9

Abhorrence

Answer 9

a feeling of repulsion; disgusted loathing