Vocab For Persepolis Book

Question 1

Obligatory

Answer 1

Adjective
Must be done because of rule or law

Question 2

Disciple

Answer 2

Noun
A follower or student of a teacher, leader, or philosopher.

Question 3

Enlighten

Answer 3

Verb
Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.

Question 4

Degenerate

Answer 4

Noun=an immoral and corrupt person
Verb=Decline phisically

Question 5

Entourage

Answer 5

Noun
A group of people attending or surrounding an important person.

Question 6

Cultivated

Answer 6

Verb=to nurture and help grow
Adjective=Refined, well educated

Question 7

Frivolities

Answer 7

Noun
A lack of seriousness , Light heartedness.

Question 8

Martyr

Answer 8

Noun
A person who is killed because of their religion/religious or other beliefs (dying for a cause).

Question 9

Clandestine

Answer 9

Adjective
Kept secret or done secretively. (usually for unauthorized purposes)

Question 10

Effigy

Answer 10

Noun
A model or other object that represents someone, especially one of a hated person that is hanged or burned in a public place.

Question 11

Refuge

Answer 11

Verb
A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger or trouble

Question 12

Euphoria

Answer 12

Noun
A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness

Question 13

Diabolical

Answer 13

Adjective
Devilish; outrageously wicked

Question 14

Decreed

Answer 14

Verb
Order in a way that has the force of law; commanded

Question 15

Emanates

Answer 15

Verb
To come out from a source (ex: the smell of the stew emanated from the kitchen.)

Question 16

Stupor

Answer 16

Noun
A condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility; inactive

Question 17

Resignation

Answer 17

Noun
A surrender; the act of giving something up.

Question 18

Secular

Answer 18

Adjective
Not specifically religious. Attitude/activities and other things that are not associated with a religion.

Question 19

Carnage

Answer 19

Noun
flesh of slain animals or humans; usually bloody slaughter or injury.

Question 20

Denounce

Answer 20

Verb
Publicly declare to be wrong or evil; inform against

Question 21

Veritable

Answer 21

Adjective
Being in fact the thing named, and not false, unreal, or imaginary.

Question 22

Fatalism

Answer 22

Noun
A doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them.

Question 23

Circumspect

Answer 23

Adjective
Wary and unwilling to take risks.

Question 24

Discreetly

Answer 24

Adverb
In a way that is careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret.

Question 25

Bureaucrat

Answer 25

Noun An official in a government department who is often concerned with the procedural correctness at the expense of peoples needs.