Vocabulary 4

Question 1

Evocative

Answer 1

to tend to evoke or draw up something.

Question 2

Ferreted

Answer 2

search tenaciously for and find something

Question 3

Ferment

Answer 3

Agitation;Unrest;Excitement

Question 4

Imperious

Answer 4

dictatorial; overbearing

Question 5

Viable

Answer 5

capable of surviving

Question 6

Inherent

Answer 6

a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute

Question 7

Vociferous

Answer 7

loud, insistent (crying may be involved)

Question 8

Fiscal

Answer 8

government expenditures, revenues, and debt.

Question 9

Sovereignty

Answer 9

unlimited power over a country

Question 10

Quorum

Answer 10

the minimum number of members present for the group to be able to make legally binding decisions

Question 11

Buoyant

Answer 11

not easily depressed or cheerful; happy or positive

Question 12

Mired

Answer 12

to involve; entangle.

Question 13

Insurgents

Answer 13

a rebel or revolutionary

Question 14

Impasse

Answer 14

a conflict where progress is impossible, usually because of a disagreement

Question 15

Harbinger

Answer 15

a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

Question 16

Recalcitrant

Answer 16

resisting control; not obedient or compliant.

Question 17

Mollify

Answer 17

to reduce the intensity

Question 18

Dismember

Answer 18

to separate into parts

Question 19

Urbanity

Answer 19

to be sophisticated, formal; refinement and elegance of manner.

Question 20

Arduous

Answer 20

Requiring great exertion

Question 21

Despotism

Answer 21

Absolute power or control; tyranny

Question 22

Posterity

Answer 22

Descendants

Question 23

Agrarian

Answer 23

of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.

Question 24

Intrusive

Answer 24

to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome

Question 25

Crass

Answer 25

Lacking sensitivity

Question 26

Dialectic

Answer 26

logical justification employed in investigating a truth or opinion

Question 27

Patronage

Answer 27

the power to appoint government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.

Question 28

Bureaucracy

Answer 28

a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected

Question 29

Abstruse

Answer 29

hard to understand

Question 30

Belligerents

Answer 30

a nation or person engaged in war or conflict.

Question 31

Insolence

Answer 31

Rude behavior or speech

Question 32

Faction

Answer 32

A group within a larger group, party, government (political party)

Question 33

Voracious

Answer 33

Exceedingly eager

Question 34

Vilify

Answer 34

to say or write very harsh and critical things about (someone or something)

Question 35

Innocuous

Answer 35

Harmless, not offensive

Question 36

Disseminate

Answer 36

Spread or disperse widely

Question 37

Nullify

Answer 37

declare legally void or inoperative

Question 38

Logjam

Answer 38

A deadlock/impasse

Question 39

Perpetuate

Answer 39

To cause something that should be stopped to continue.

Question 40

Precedent

Answer 40

Something that occurred previously that acts as a model.

Question 41

Succession

Answer 41

the descent or transmission of a throne, dignity, estate