Vocab Chapter 16

Question 1

Concomitant

Answer 1

Accompanying; concurrent

Question 2

Congregate

Answer 2

Gather into a crowd; assemble

Question 3

Exodus

Answer 3

Going out; mass departure (like that of the Israelites from Europe)

Question 4

Flounder

Answer 4

Struggle awkwardly to move or obtain a footing; proceed clumsily with frequent mistakes

Question 5

Founder

Answer 5

Come to grief; go to the bottom; skin

Question 6

Incursion

Answer 6

Sudden, brief invasion; raid

Question 7

Itinerary

Answer 7

Route of a journey; schedule

Question 8

Labyrinth

Answer 8

Place full of confusing interconnecting passageways and blind alleys; maze; anything extremely intricate and perplexing

Question 9

Meander

Answer 9

Follow a winding intricate course; wander aimlessly; ramble

Question 10

Obituary

Answer 10

Published notice of death, including a short biographical account

Question 11

Obsolescent

Answer 11

Going out of use; becoming obsolete (outmoded)

Question 12

Peregrination

Answer 12

Travel; journey

Question 13

Peripatetic

Answer 13

Walking about from place to place; itinerant

Question 14

Retrogress

Answer 14

Move backward to an earlier or worse condition; degenerate

Question 15

Safari

Answer 15

Journey or hunting expedition, especially in Eastern Africa; any lengthy’ adventurous expedition

Question 16

Somnambulist

Answer 16

Person who walk in his sleep; sleepwalker

Question 17

Transition

Answer 17

Process or period of passing from one condition, place, or action to another; change

Question 18

Wanderlust

Answer 18

Strong, restless longing to travel

Question 19

Yaw

Answer 19

Deviate abruptly from a straight course; swerve; veer

Question 20

Amble

Answer 20

Walk unhurriedly; go leisurely