Reading 8 List 1

Question 1

Alienate

Answer 1

To abandon, isolate

Question 2

Appease

Answer 2

To make peace with,

Question 3

Appease

Answer 3

To make peace with, gain the good will of

Question 4

Autonomy

Answer 4

Personal I ndependence

Question 5

Buttress

Answer 5

Support, to make stronger

Question 6

Commissioned

Answer 6

Authority, in charge, given approval to act

Question 7

Contrite

Answer 7

Feeling regret for fault or offense, feeling or expressing pain

Question 8

Declarative

Answer 8

A mood that represents the act or state of an offensive act

Question 9

Determined

Answer 9

Devoting full strength, strongly motivated to succeed

Question 10

Dispel

Answer 10

To force to go away, to split and go in opposite directions

Question 11

Erudition

Answer 11

Scholarly knowledge

Question 12

Exude

Answer 12

To release in small quantities, to make evident by ones behavior

Question 13

Forbearance

Answer 13

A delay in enforcing rights, refraining from acting, good natured tolerance of delay of incompetence

Question 14

Havoc

Answer 14

Violent and needless disturbance, chaos

Question 15

Implacable

Answer 15

Incapable of being pleased or appeased

Question 16

Ineffable

Answer 16

Too scared to be uttered, defying expression or description

Question 17

Intransigent

Answer 17

Impervious to persuasion, stubborn

Question 18

Lapse

Answer 18

To break an intermission, let slip, a mistake resulting from Inattention, a failure maintain a higher state

Question 19

Ludicrous

Answer 19

Broadly humorous

Question 20

Obliterate

Answer 20

Reduce to nothingness, remove without leaving a trace

Question 21

Palliate

Answer 21

To lessen, relieve from pain

Question 22

Piquant

Answer 22

Attracting or delighting, provocative, stimulating, having pungent taste

Question 23

Precarious

Answer 23

Insecure, scared, dangerously insecure

Question 24

Prevail

Answer 24

Continue to exist, be valid and acceptable, be true

Question 25

Promulgate

Answer 25

Declare as law, announce

Question 26

Puerile

Answer 26

Characteristics of a child, showing childish characteristics

Question 27

Rebuke

Answer 27

Criticism or censure, to make angry

Question 28

Refutations

Answer 28

Evidence that proves one false

Question 29

Reproach

Answer 29

To criticize, disgrace, or shame

Question 30

Retraction

Answer 30

Drawing back, taking back a previous assertion

Question 31

Sacrosanct

Answer 31

Must be kept sacred or holy

Question 32

Self evident

Answer 32

Evident without any proof or argument

Question 33

Skewed

Answer 33

Slanted direction

Question 34

Subjective

Answer 34

In the mind based on ones own bias

Question 35

Surmise

Answer 35

Infer

Question 36

Temperance

Answer 36

Avoiding excess

Question 37

Unflappable

Answer 37

Extremely calm, composed, and tolerant

Question 38

Upstart

Answer 38

A person that has risen economically