Vocabulary 4

Question 1

Revealing hostility and readiness to fight.

Answer 1

Belligerence

Question 2

Intonation of the voice

Answer 2

Cadence

Question 3

Measured movement, such as in music or writing.

Answer 3

Cadence

Question 4

Mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy.

Answer 4

Clemency

Question 5

A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning.

Answer 5

Dirge

Question 6

The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily.

Answer 6

Frugality

Question 7

A break or interruption in something; a gap, or pause.

Answer 7

Hiatus

Question 8

Extreme poverty.

Answer 8

Penury

Question 9

Condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment.

Answer 9

Perdition

Question 10

The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one’s own.

Answer 10

Plagiarism

Question 11

A person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office

Answer 11

Precursor

Question 12

Authoritative permission for an action

Answer 12

Sanction

Question 13

Penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law.

Answer 13

Sanction

Question 14

The direction of an object through space

Answer 14

Trajectory

Question 15

A course taken

Answer 15

Trajectory