vocab

Question 1

pathos “pay-thous”

Answer 1

a quality that evokes pity or sadness

“an actor injects his constomary humour and pathos into the role”

Question 2

artifice

Answer 2

clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

-trickery, ruse

Question 3

conviction

Answer 3

1. formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offence - made by judge or jury
2. a frilly held belief or opinion

Question 4

martyrdom

Answer 4

the death or suffering of a martyr

Question 5

piety

Answer 5

the quality of being religious or reverent

• devotion

Question 6

veneration

Answer 6

great respect (same as reverence)

honoring a saint

Question 7

erudition. (air-a-dition)

erudite

Answer 7

the quality of showing or having great knowledge or learning; scholarship

An erudite person has both deep and broad familiarity with general subjects and is usually knowledgeable in a particular subject, by virtue of study and extensive reading of the subject’s literature.

Question 8

discern

Answer 8

perceive or recognize

distinguish, detect, notice

Question 9

conciliatory

Answer 9

to do something to make someone less angry

If you’re in a fight with a friend and you want to end it, you should make a conciliatory gesture, such as inviting her to a party you’re having. Conciliatory describes things that make other people less angry.

The context is often a situation in which a dispute is settled by compromise. A synonym is propitiatory, though this adjective usually refers to avoiding the anger of someone who has the power to harm. In the word conciliatory, the –ory suffix means “relating to or doing,” and the root is from Latin conciliatus, from conciliare “to bring together, win over,” from concilium “council.”

Question 10

placate (play-kate)

Answer 10

to make someone less angry - conciliatory action

Question 11

apocryphal

Answer 11

• a statment or story thats authencity is questioned or doubted - but is usually widley circulating in society
• an apocryphal story about a former president

Question 12

rectify

Answer 12

the chance to do right

- teachers letting you rectify your mistakes

Question 13

stratagem

Answer 13

A stratagem is a scheme or a clever plot. You can have a stratagem for winning a chess game, getting the girl (or boy), and avoiding a punishment. However, your opponents, crushes, and parents may have a trick or two of their own.

Question 14

abstruse

Answer 14

Abstruse things are difficult to understand because they are so deep and intellectually challenging. It might be hard to figure out how a toilet flushes but the technology that goes into making the Internet function is abstruse.