Vocabulary 6

Question 1

Disaffection

Answer 1

to fill with dissatisfaction or discontent

Question 2

Lame-Duck

Answer 2

An elected official holding political office during the period between the election and inauguration of a successor

Question 3

Emissary

Answer 3

A person who is sent to represent another

Question 4

Immune

Answer 4

Having special protection from something that is required for most people by law

Question 5

Tenuos

Answer 5

Not certain or strong

Question 6

Stymied

Answer 6

To stop someone from doing something

Question 7

Indissoluble

Answer 7

Something that cannot be destroyed

Question 8

Fervid

Answer 8

Heated enthusiasm

Question 9

Locus

Answer 9

A main place where something happens or is found

Question 10

Procuring

Answer 10

To get something by action or effort

Question 11

Conscription

Answer 11

Enrollment, draft

Question 12

Routed

Answer 12

to disastrously defeat

Question 13

Sublime

Answer 13

to elevate in dignity or honor ; to convert something inferior

Question 14

Extolled

Answer 14

to praise highly

Question 15

Referendum

Answer 15

people submit to popular vote on a measure passed on a legislature

Question 16

Waned

Answer 16

To decrease in size

Question 17

Dire

Answer 17

Causing great fear or worry ; very bad

Question 18

Graft

Answer 18

To gain (money) in dishonest or questionable ways

Question 19

Adroit

Answer 19

Showing skill or cleverness when handling situations

Question 20

Malefactor

Answer 20

Someone who is guilty of a crime

Question 21

Contested

Answer 21

To make something the subject of an argument

Question 22

Fledgling

Answer 22

An immature or inexperience person

Question 23

Lurid

Answer 23

Causing shock or distrust

Question 24

Tacitly

Answer 24

Implied or Indicated but not actually expressed (by an act or silence)

Question 25

Eradicate

Answer 25

To completely remove something

Question 26

Bonanza

Answer 26

Something that produces very good results for someone

Question 27

Insurrection

Answer 27

A usually violent act against the government

Question 28

Attrition

Answer 28

The process of gradually defeating an enemy with attacks and pressure over time

Question 29

Ascendance

Answer 29

The act of rising or moving up

Question 30

Enfranchised

Answer 30

To endow to the privileges of a citizen and to the right of suffrage