Vocab 1

Question 1

Acronym

Answer 1

Word formed from the first letters of other words (ex. WHO)

Question 2

Alias

Answer 2

Additional name, usually in the context of crime

Question 3

Appellation

Answer 3

Identifying name or title

Question 4

Avarice

Answer 4

Greed

Question 5

Cherub

Answer 5

Angel baby

Question 6

Countenance

Answer 6

Facial expression

Question 7

Dowager

Answer 7

Widow who has assets from her dead husband

Question 8

Elegy

Answer 8

Sad poem/song

Question 9

Epitaph

Answer 9

Inscription on a grave in remembrance

Question 10

Epithet

Answer 10

Characterizing word with someone’s name, insulting

Question 11

Eulogy

Answer 11

Writing remembering someone who died

Question 12

Ignominy

Answer 12

Deep humiliation

Question 13

Figurehead

Answer 13

A leader in name only

Question 14

Lexicon

Answer 14

Dictionary

Question 15

Magistrate

Answer 15

Someone who administers the law, judge

Question 16

Masthead

Answer 16

Name of a publication at the top of a newspaper

Question 17

Misnomer

Answer 17

Wrong name or title

Question 18

Moniker

Answer 18

Nickname

Question 19

Namesake

Answer 19

A person with the same name as someone else

Question 20

Physiognomy

Answer 20

Studying facial features to show someone’s character

Question 21

Pseudonym

Answer 21

Fictional name

Question 22

Sycophant

Answer 22

Flatterer, suck-up

Question 23

Throng

Answer 23

Crowd

Question 24

Toil

Answer 24

Long, tiring work

Question 25

Tome

Answer 25

Large, scholarly book

Question 26

Transgression

Answer 26

Violating a law or rule

Question 27

Treatise

Answer 27

Formal writing of a subject

Question 28

Utopia

Answer 28

Ideal society

Question 29

Vestige

Answer 29

Trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

Question 30

Visage

Answer 30

Face and it's expression