Vocab List 10

Question 1

Altar (alt)

Answer 1

the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services (high)

Question 2

Insinuate (ate)

Answer 2

suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way (cause)

Question 3

Cadaver (cad)

Answer 3

A corpse (fall)

Question 4

Capitulation (capit)

Answer 4

the action of surrendering or ceasing to resist an opponent or demand (head)

Question 5

Reincarnated (carn)

Answer 5

the rebirth of a soul in a new body (flesh)

Question 6

Cordial (cor)

Answer 6

warm and friendly (heart)

Question 7

Encrypt (crypt)

Answer 7

convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, especially to prevent unauthorized access (hidden)

Question 8

Cursive (curs)

Answer 8

written with the characters joined (run)

Question 9

Baroness (ess)

Answer 9

the wife or widow of a baron (female)

Question 10

Ethnocentrism (ethno)

Answer 10

Judging other cultures based on the beliefs and habits of your own culture (race/culture)

Question 11

Centrifuge (fug)

Answer 11

A machine that spins very fast to separate things based on their weight (flee)

Question 12

Progeny (gen)

Answer 12

a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring (origin)

Question 13

Aesthetics (ics)

Answer 13

a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art (art)

Question 14

Isotope (iso)

Answer 14

Different forms of the same element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons (equal)

Question 15

Circumlocution (loqu)

Answer 15

the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive (talk)

Question 16

Moribund (mort)

Answer 16

at the point of death (death)

Question 17

Transmutation (muta)

Answer 17

the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form (change)

Question 18

Nascent (nat)

Answer 18

just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential (born)

Question 19

Vagueness (ness)

Answer 19

lack of certainty or distinctness (quality)

Question 20

Paleoanthropic (paleo)

Answer 20

An early type of human from the prehistoric past (old)

Question 21

Pedestrian (ped)

Answer 21

a person walking along a road or in a developed area (foot)

Question 22

Psychosis (pysch)

Answer 22

a severe mental condition in which thought and emotions are so affected that contact is lost with external reality (soul)

Question 23

Sacrosanct (sacro)

Answer 23

Considered too important or special to be changed or touched (holy)

Question 24

Uniform (uni)

Answer 24

remaining the same at all times; unchanging in form or character (one)

Question 25

Inverted (vert)

Answer 25

Turned upside down or the opposite of the normal position or order (turn)