PW Chapter 1-7 Vocabulary

Question 1

increasing in size or Importance

Answer 1

Ascending

Question 2

harshness of tone or manner

Answer 2

Asperity

Question 3

a secret or disguised way of writing; a code

Answer 3

Cipher

Question 4

a soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher

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Grenadier

Question 5

unable to be placated

Answer 5

Implacability

Question 6

a person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way, a disposition or propensity

Answer 6

Inclination

Question 7

inconvenience (someone

Answer 7

Incommode

Question 8

not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

Answer 8

Incongruous

Question 9

wanting to avoid activity or exertion: lazy

Answer 9

Indolent

Question 10

an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river

Answer 10

Levee

Question 11

the crux or central point of a matter

Answer 11

Nub

Question 12

(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health

Answer 12

Pallid

Question 13

a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities

Answer 13

Prodigies

Question 14

remarkably or impressively great in extent,size,or degree.

Answer 14

Prodigious

Question 15

having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something

Answer 15

Rabid

Question 16

make or become hard or solid

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Solidified

Question 17

drink alcohol, especially habitually

Answer 17

Tippling

Question 18

(especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated.

Answer 18

Vivacity

Question 19

habitual; usual

Answer 19

Wonted

Question 20

exagerated stories

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Yarns

Question 21

one’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute

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Adversaries

Question 22

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Capricious

Question 23

a child belived to have been secretly substitued

Answer 23

Changelings

Question 24

an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property

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Conflagration

Question 25

ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

Answer 25

Docile

Question 26

tricking somebody a trick

Answer 26

Dupe

Question 27

an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

Answer 27

Epithet

Question 28

express strong disapproval or disagreement

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Expostulated

Question 29

(typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome

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Fractious

Question 30

rude and mocking remarks

Answer 30

Jeers

Question 31

very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect

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Lurid

Question 32

obedient or attentive

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Obsequiousness

Question 33

stated or appearing to be true but not necessarily so

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Ostensible

Question 34

the authority to represent someone else especially in voting

Answer 34

Proxy

Question 35

the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence

Answer 35

Speculations

Question 36

a person who takes a position or power or importance illegally or by force

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Usurper

Question 37

never bullet arrows or other projectiles discharged at one time

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Volley

Question 38

ridiculously old fashion

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Antediluvian

Question 39

approval or praise.

Answer 39

Approbation

Question 40

a social group

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Caste

Question 41

a person or nation engage in fighting

Answer 41

Combatants

Question 42

the branch of law concerned or documents for the transferring of property

Answer 42

Conveyancing

Question 43

the customary code of polite behavior

Answer 43

Etiquette

Question 44

inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large powerful intense are capable

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Formidable

Question 45

a period of two weeks

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Fortnight

Question 46

a small settlement generally one smaller than a village

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Hamlet

Question 47

incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

Answer 47

Infallible

Question 48

a clumsy stupid person

Answer 48

Lummox

Question 49

the fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity

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Magnanimity

Question 50

ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish

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Opulent

Question 51

the quality of being religious or reverent

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Piety

Question 52

an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances

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Precedent

Question 53

a member or follower of any of the western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic church and follow the principles of the reformation including the Baptist presbyterian and Lutheran churches

Answer 53

Protestants

Question 54

an act of retaliation

Answer 54

Reprisals

Question 55

ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly

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Supplicating

Question 56

very hot and dry

Answer 56

Torrid

Question 57

a person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time

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Transients

Question 58

leadership or dominance especially by one country or social group over others

Answer 58

Hegemony

Question 59

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Answer 59

Vernacular

Question 60

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

Answer 60

Satire