Lesson 6 Vocab

Question 1

Bourgeois

Answer 1

Middle class

Question 2

Complacency

Answer 2

Self satisfaction

Question 3

Endowment

Answer 3

Funds/property donated to an institution, person or group as a source of income

Question 4

Genesis

Answer 4

Origin or beginning

Question 5

Insuperable

Answer 5

Impossible to overcome

Question 6

Jocund

Answer 6

Cheerful in disposition, character, or quality

Question 7

Libel

Answer 7

A false publication in writing, print, or pictures intended to damage a person’s reputation unjustly

Question 8

Monogamy

Answer 8

Practice or state of being married to only one person at a time

Question 9

Nonchalant

Answer 9

Without enthusiasm; casually indifferent

Question 10

Orthodox

Answer 10

Adhering to the accepted/traditional and established faith

Question 11

Permeable

Answer 11

Able to be penetrated

Question 12

Provocative

Answer 12

Provoking or tending to provoke to action, thought, anger, desire, etc.

Question 13

Synergy

Answer 13

Interaction of two or more forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects

Question 14

Vitiate

Answer 14

To spoil corrupt or debase

Question 15

Benevolent

Answer 15

Demonstrating an inclination to do good