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Chapter 14
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adonis | very handosme man |
| Atlas | book of maps |
| Baedeker | gidebook; handbook |
| bowdlerize | expurgatge; clear of words of passages throught to be objectionable |
| boycott | join with others to refuse to use, buy, or deal with |
| Chauvinist | fanatical patriot; jingoist |
| cicerone | guide who explains to tourists the history and special features of a place |
| Damoclean | involving imminent disaster |
| gargantuan | enormous; gigantic; prodigious |
| John Hancock | persons signature |
| Machiavellian | craft; deceitful; cunning |
| malapropism | humourous misuse of words by a person unaware of the error |
| mentor | wise, trusted adviser or teacher |
| mesmerize | hypnotize;spellbind; enthrall |
| odyssey | long, wandering journey |
| philippic | bitter denuciatory speech; trade; jeremiad |
| quisling | traitor; collaborator |
| quixotic | impractically idealistic; visionary |
| sadistic | deriving pleasure by inflicting pain on others; deliberatley cruel |
| stentorian | very loud |