TKAM CHS 16-23 VOCAB

Question 1

Inaudible

Answer 1

Unable to be heard

Question 2

Obscure

Answer 2

Not discovered or known about

Question 3

Penitentiary

Answer 3

A prison for people who committed serious crimes

Question 4

Placid

Answer 4

Not easily upset or excited

Question 5

Resignation

Answer 5

Retiring or giving up on a position

Question 6

Acrimonious

Answer 6

Bitter language or tone

Question 7

Corroborating

Answer 7

To make certain or confirm

Question 8

Countenance

Answer 8

Be calm not showing feeling

Question 9

Frank

Answer 9

Free in expression of ones thoughts

Question 10

Gullet

Answer 10

An esophagus or throat

Question 11

Subpoena

Answer 11

Requiring a person to testify in court

Question 12

Bash

Answer 12

Self assertive in a rude or overbearing way

Question 13

Browbeating

Answer 13

A use of threats to make someone do something

Question 14

Expunge

Answer 14

Erase or remove completely

Question 15

Lavations

Answer 15

The process of washing

Question 16

Proceedings

Answer 16

A series of activities or events

Question 17

Volition

Answer 17

Power of using ones will

Question 18

Acquit

Answer 18

Free from charge as not guilty

Question 19

Detachment

Answer 19

The state of being objective or aloof

Question 20

Discreet

Answer 20

Individually desperate and discreet

Question 21

Indicted

Answer 21

Formerly accused or charged of a serious crime

Question 22

I perpetuated

Answer 22

To cause something that should be stopped to continue

Question 23

Temerity

Answer 23

The quality of being unaffraid to danger or punishment

Question 24

Vengeance

Answer 24

To seek revenge of a person

Question 25

Appeal

Answer 25

Application to a higher court for a decision to be reversed

Question 26

Cynical

Answer 26

Be living that people are motivated by self interest

Question 27

Diction

Answer 27

The choice or usage of words

Question 28

Fatalistic

Answer 28

Something that will happen has already been decided and can't be un done

Question 29

Heathen

Answer 29

Someone who doesn't belong to a widely held belief or religion

Question 30

Statute

Answer 30

A written law passed by a legislative body

Question 31

Vehement

Answer 31

Showing strong or intense feeling

Question 32

Analogous

Answer 32

Showing analogy

Question 33

Articulate

Answer 33

Clearly understandable

Question 34

Evasion noun

Answer 34

The means of escaping