Vocab Quiz V

Front 1

characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing *ADJ

Back 1

aggressive

Front 2

–noun
1. the principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne.
2. (in nonepiscopal denominations) any of various important churches.
–adjective
3. pertaining to or containing a bishop's throne.
4. pertaining to or emanating from a chair of office or authority.

Back 2

cathedral

Front 3

–noun
1. a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor
2. Usually, the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent:
3. an unessential or secondary accompaniment of any fact or event; minor detail: The author dwells on circumstances rather than essentials.
4. s, the condition or state of a person with respect to income and material welfare: a family in reduced circumstances.
5. an incident or occurrence: His arrival was a fortunate circumstance.
6. detailed or circuitous narration; specification of particulars: The speaker expatiated with great circumstance upon his theme.
7. Archaic. ceremonious accompaniment or display: pomp and circumstance.
–verb (used with object)

Back 3

circumstance

Front 4

verb (used with object)
1. to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake;
2. to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting:
3. to surround or encompass, as by stratage.

Back 4

circumvent

Front 5

–adjective
1. having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
2. sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one's own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; self-confident; bold: a confident speaker.
3. excessively bold; presumptuous.
4. Obsolete. trustful or confiding.
–noun
5. a confidant.

Back 5

confident

Front 6

–noun
1. (initial capital letter)
a. the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution.
b. this body as it exists for a period of two years during which it has the same membership: the 96th Congress.
c. a session of this body: to speak in Congress.
2. the national legislative body of a nation, esp. of a republic.
3. a formal meeting or assembly of representatives for the discussion, arrangement, or promotion of some matter of common interest.
4. the act of coming together; an encounter; meeting.
5. an association, esp. one composed of representatives of various organizations.
6. familiar relations; dealings; intercourse.
7. coitus; sexual intercourse.
–verb (used without object)
8. to assemble together;

Back 6

congress

Front 7

adjective
1. lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
2. restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.
3. Archaic. distrustful.

Back 7

diffident

Front 8

1. to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
2. Archaic. to turn aside.

Back 8

digress

Front 9

noun
1. a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
2. a member of the ecclesia in ancient Athens.
–adjective

Back 9

ecclesiastic

Front 10

something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, esp. one of some importance.
2. the outcome, issue, or result of anything:
3. something that occurs in a certain place during a particular interval of time.
4. Physics. in relativity, an occurrence that is sharply localized at a single point in space and instant of time. Compare world point.
5. Sports. any of the contests in a program made up of one sport or of a number of sports

Back 10

event

Front 11

–noun
1. a child during the earliest period of its life, esp. before he or she can walk; baby.
2. Law. a person who is not of full age, esp. one who has not reached the age of 18 years; a minor.
3. a beginner, as in experience or learning; novice: The new candidate is a political infant.
4. anything in the first stage of existence or progress.
–adjective

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infant

Front 12

verb (used without object), -
1. to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
2. to occur or be between two things.
3. to occur or happen between other events or periods:
4. (of things) to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder: We enjoyed the picnic until a thunderstorm intervened.
5. to interfere with force or a threat of force:
6. Law. to interpose and become a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Back 12

intervene

Front 13

–noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women

Back 13

misogyny

Front 14

noun
1. anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
2. a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed:
3. the end toward which effort or action is directed; goal; purpose:
4. a person or thing with reference to the impression made on the mind or the feeling or emotion elicited in an observer:
5. anything that may be apprehended intellectually:
6. Optics. the thing of which a lens or mirror forms an image.
7. Grammar. (in many languages, as English) a noun, noun phrase, or noun substitute representing by its syntactical position either the goal of the action of a verb or the goal of a preposition in a prepositional phrase, as ball in John hit the ball, Venice in He came to Venice, coin and her in He gave her a coin.
8. Computers. any item that can be individually selected or manipulated, as a picture, data file, or piece of text.
9. Metaphysics. something toward which a cognitive act is directed.
–verb (used without object)
10. to offer a reason or argument in opposition.
11. to express or feel disapproval, dislike, or distaste; be averse.
12. to refuse or attempt to refuse to permit some action, speech, etc.
–verb (used with object)
13. to state, claim, or cite in opposition; put forward in objection: Some persons objected that the proposed import duty would harm world trade.
14. Archaic. to bring forward or adduce in opposition.

Back 14

object

Front 15

noun
a sexual attraction to children

Back 15

pediophilia

Front 16

a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776. 1,688,210.

Back 16

Philidelphia

Front 17

–noun
1. (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
2. an officer appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of persons.
3. the chief officer of a college, university, society, corporation, etc.
4. a person who presides.

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president

Front 18

verb (used with object)
1. to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to.
2. to return (an accusation, epithet, etc.) upon the person uttering it.
3. to answer (an argument or the like) by another to the contrary.

Back 18

retort

Front 19

the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
2. a single continuous sitting, or period of sitting, of persons so assembled.
3. a continuous series of sittings or meetings of a court, legislature, or the like.
4. the period or term during which such a series is held.
5. sessions, (in English law) the sittings or a sitting of justices in court, usually to deal with minor offenses, grant licenses, etc.
6. a single continuous course or period of lessons, study, etc., in the work of a day at school: two afternoon sessions a week.
7. a portion of the year into which instruction is organized at a college or other educational institution.
8. the governing body of a local Presbyterian church, composed of the pastor who moderates and the elders.
9. a period of time during which a group of persons meets to pursue a particular activity: A few of the kids got together for a study session.

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session

Front 20

–noun
1. a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
2. something considered as a source of illumination, enlightenment, guidance, etc.: the torch of learning.
3. any of various lamplike devices that produce a hot flame and are used for soldering, burning off paint, etc.
4. Slang. an arsonist.
5. Chiefly British. flashlight (def. 1).
–verb (used without object)
6. to burn or flare up like a torch.
–verb (used with object)
7. to subject to the flame or light of a torch, as in order to burn, sear, solder, or illuminate.
8. Slang. to set fire to maliciously, esp. in order to collect insurance.

Back 20

torch

Front 21

ad

Back 21

to, toward, near

Front 22

grad/gress

Back 22

to step, to go

Front 23

cat

Back 23

down, against, completly

Front 24

hezesthai

Back 24

to sit down

Front 25

circum

Back 25

around, about

Front 26

star

Back 26

stand

Front 27

ven

Back 27

come

Front 28

com/con

Back 28

together, common

Front 29

fid

Back 29

faith

Front 30

di/dis

Back 30

apart, away,
not, to the opposite

Front 31

ex

Back 31

out

Front 32

kalein

Back 32

to call

Front 33

fari

Back 33

to speak

Front 34

misos

Back 34

to hate, wrongly

Front 35

phil

Back 35

love

Front 36

adolf

Back 36

noble, wolf

Front 37

sid/sess

Back 37

to sit

Front 38

tort

Back 38

twist