Unit 2

Question 1

Wary

Answer 1

watchful; being on one’s guard against danger

Question 2

Arable

Answer 2

capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage

Question 3

Dispelled

Answer 3

to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate

Question 4

Heterogeneous

Answer 4

different in kind; unlike; incongruous

Question 5

Squatters

Answer 5

a person who settles on land or occupies property without title,right, or payment of rent.

Question 6

Precarious

Answer 6

dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control; uncertain;unstable; insecure

Question 7

Encroach

Answer 7

to trespass upon the property, domain, or rights of another, especially stealthily or by gradual advances.

Question 8

Emulate

Answer 8

to strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

Question 9

Augment

Answer 9

to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase

Question 10

Aggregate

Answer 10

formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined

Question 11

Solvent

Answer 11

able to pay all just debts

Question 12

Itinerant

Answer 12

traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; journeying.

Question 13

Burgeoning

Answer 13

to grow or develop quickly; to flourish

Question 14

Demerit

Answer 14

a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency

Question 15

Autocratic

Answer 15

autocracy:government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch

Question 16

Chicanery

Answer 16

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them

Question 17

Repel

Answer 17

to drive or force back

Question 18

Indolent

Answer 18

disinclined to work