Unit 1

Question 1

Adjunct

Answer 1

(N) Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential. An assistant or helper a valuable quality or characteristic. adj) added or connected in a subordinate capacity attached to a factually or staff in an auxiliary capacity

Question 2

Bellwether

Answer 2

The male sheep that leads the flick to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking ; an indicator of trends

Question 3

Caterwaul

Answer 3

To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel. n) a harsh or noisy cry a racket

Question 4

Chimerical

Answer 4

Absurd ; wildly fantastic ; impossible

Question 5

Effete

Answer 5

Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy ; worn out of exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date

Question 6

Fait accompli

Answer 6

An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed fact or action

Question 7

Hidebound

Answer 7

Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative

Question 8

Hierarchy

Answer 8

Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class

Question 9

Laissez-faire

Answer 9

A philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference, especially with individual freedom of choice and action

Question 10

Liturgy

Answer 10

A religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship

Question 11

Morass

Answer 11

A patch of low soft wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand

Question 12

Noisome

Answer 12

Offensive or disgusting; foul smelling; harmful or injurious

Question 13

Oblivious

Answer 13

Forgetful ; unaware

Question 14

Poltroon

Answer 14

A base coward

Question 15

Proselyte

Answer 15

A convert ; a disciple

Question 16

Quasi

Answer 16

Resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely

Question 17

Raillery

Answer 17

Good humored ridicule; teasing

Question 18

Ribald

Answer 18

Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language

Question 19

Supine

Answer 19

Lyon flaca on ones back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive

Question 20

Vignette

Answer 20

(n) a short suscripción or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter