Week 6

Question 1

Carnivorous

Answer 1

meat-eating or flesh-eating

Question 2

herbivorous

Answer 2

Plant-eating

Question 3

omnivorous

Answer 3

1. Feeding on both plants and animals. 2.

Intensely interested in everything

Question 4

voracious

Answer 4

1. Having a huge appetite. 2. Very eager

Question 5

carnage

Answer 5

Great destruction of life (as in a battle);

slaughter

Question 6

carnal

Answer 6

Having to do with bodily pleasures

Question 7

incarnation

Answer 7

1. A physical form or version of
   something. 2. A person showing to a trait to a
   marked degree.

Question 8

carnival

Answer 8

1. A season of merrymaking just before
   Lent; an occasion of festivities and excess. 2. A
   traveling group that presents a variety of
   amusements.

Question 9

credence

Answer 9

Mental acceptance of something as true

or real; belief

Question 10

creditable

Answer 10

worthy of praise.

Question 11

credulity

Answer 11

Readiness and willingness to believe on

the basis of little evidence.

Question 12

creed

Answer 12

1. A statement of basic beliefs of a
   religious faith. 2. A set of guiding principles or
   beliefs.

Question 13

affidavit

Answer 13

A sworn statement made in writing

Question 14

diffident

Answer 14

1. Lacking confidence, timid. 2. Cautious

or unassertive.

Question 15

fiduciary

Answer 15

1. Having to do with confidence or trust.

2. Held in trust for another.

Question 16

perfidy

Answer 16

Faithlessness, disloyalty, or treachery