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Great Books Final Ex
Question | Answer |
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Define Puerile. | Childish. |
Define Ameliorate. | To make better. |
Define Lionize. | To treat as a celebrity. |
Define Recalcitrant. | Stubbornly resistant. |
Define Asperity. | Roughness or harshness. |
Define Bumpkin. | An unsophisticated person. |
Define Soporific. | Tending to cause sleepiness. |
Define Toady. | A person who flatters for personal gain. |
Define Corroborate. | To strengthen by adding evidence. |
Define Culpable. | Guilty. |
Define Luminous. | Bright, full of light. |
Define Indolent. | Lazy. |
Define Timorous. | Timid. |
Define Largesse. | Generosity. |
Define Depredate. | To plunder in pillage. |
Define Requisite. | Required. |
Define Dogged. | Persistant. |
Define Etymology. | The history of a word. |
Define Simian. | Related to or resembled an ape or monkey. |
Define Crescendo. | A gradual increase in intensity, force, or volume. |
Define Condescending. | Treating someone as an inferior. |
Define Bellicose. | War-like. |
Define Wizened. | Withered from old age. |
Define Rhapsodize. | To express oneself enthusiastically. |
Define Voluble. | Talkative. |
Corrections? Simply like the lunchroom, everyone has a spot, if a table is moved its chaos, because people like to be comfortable with their surroundings. | People like to be comfortable, so if anything in the lunchroom is moved, it is chaos. |
Corrections? Because there was no uniform school system there was a religious diversity in the middle colonies. | 'T'here was no uniform school system 'because' there was a religious diversity in the 'M'iddle 'C'olonies. |
Corrections? Ben Franklin commented on the school system when he wrote "we have changed our forms of leadership but we have yet to effect a revolution in education". | Ben Franklin commented on the school system when he wrote',' "'W'e have changed our forms of leadership but we have yet to effect a revolution in education'."' |
Corrections? I was frightened nervous and anxious to meet new people all at the same time. | I was frightened',' nervous',' and anxious 'all at the same time' 'when meeting' new people'.' |
Corrections? It was one summer morning and I called up my friend, this is when I lived in Kettering, anyways I called my friend John and asked him if he wanted to do something that day. | One summer morning in Kettering, I called up my friend John to ask him if he wanted to do something that day. |
Corrections? Which is why I respect almost everyone that is now on my team that has played all there life they have been taking their beating's and now are finally dishing them out. | My team has take their beatings, and now that they are finally dishing them out, I respect almost all of them. |
Corrections? Their were alot of changes I had to adjust to. | 'There' were 'a lot' of changes I had to adjust to. |
Corrections? After we unloaded all of are stuff we started riding | After we unloaded all of 'our' stuff',' we started riding. |
Corrections? I was known around Waynesville well and maybe some other parts of warrant county too. | I was 'well-known' around Waynesville, and maybe some other parts of 'Warren County' too. |