WODS 34-50

Question 0

Frame Narrative (Noun)

Answer 0

The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones.

Question 1

Capitulate (Verb)

Answer 1

To surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.

Some criminals do not capitulate easily once captured.

Question 2

Pedantry (Noun)

Answer 2

Slavish attention to rules, details.

The pedantic student never talked out of turn in class.

Question 3

Chimerical (Adj)

Answer 3

Wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic.

Many seniors have the chimerical idea that they can cut school and still graduate.

Question 4

Vacillate (Verb)

Answer 4

To waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.

Politicians should not vacillate their views if they want to have a strong campaign.

Question 5

Salubrious (Adj)

Answer 5

Conducive or favorable to health; wholesome.

Spending two years in a lab working on his creature was not salubrious to Frankenstein’s health.

Question 6

Verisimilitude (Noun)

Answer 6

The appearance of truth and actuality; in a work of fiction- suggests that the incidents in a work really happened.

Question 7

Capacious (Adj)

Answer 7

Capable of holding much; spacious or roomy.

The capacious room was perfect for holding a party.

Question 8

Clemency (Noun)

Answer 8

An act or deed showing mercy or leniency.

Before Antigone’s death, she begged Creon to show clemency.

Question 9

Mutable (Adj)

Answer 9

Liable or subject to change or alteration.

The date of the pool party was mutable in case of bad weather.

Question 10

Perdition (Noun)

Answer 10

A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.

Christians believe that a person who is not baptized is in perdition.

Question 11

Obdurate (Adj)

Answer 11

Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.

People on a diet must be obdurate and resist junk food.

Question 12

Vaunt (Verb)

Answer 12

To speak vain, gloriously of; boast of.

Many people have been vaunting about the new iPhone because of all of its new features.

Question 13

Uxorious (Adj)

Answer 13

Doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one’s wife.

The man was uxorious by buying his wife many lavish gifts.

Question 14

Puissant (Adj)

Answer 14

Powerful; mighty; potent.

The dance crew thought they were more puissant than other groups in the competition.

Question 15

Opprobrious (Adj)

Answer 15

Outrageously disgraceful or shameful.

Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance was considered opprobrious to the stage she was dancing on.

Question 16

Galvanism (Noun)

Answer 16

“electricity produced by chemical action,” 1797. Physicist Luigi Galvani discovered it while running currents through the legs of dead frogs.