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WW L1
Word List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a follower/assistant; assists in religious services | acolyte |
| given to the consumption of alcoholic drinks | bibulous |
| highly absorbent | bibulous |
| to unite to form a whole | coalesce |
| secret | covert |
| to speak in a loud, theatrical way or in the style of a public speech | declaim |
| to describe vividly in detail | delineate |
| to draw an outline of; to represent by drawing | delineate |
| a leader who seeks power by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices by making false claims and promises | demagogue |
| an expression of warm and enthusiastic praise; a tribute | encomium (pl. encomiums, encomia) |
| resistance to persuasion; inflexible | obdurate |
| persistent in wrongdoing | obdurate |
| foresight | prescience |
| chief character in a drama or story | protagonist |
| completed with careful perseverance; diligent | sedulous |
| keenly perceptive; expressed with vigor and penetrating insight | trenchant |
| a place or state of things in which everything is perfect | utopia |
| farewell address, esp. given at a graduation ceremony | valedictory (n), valediction (adj.) |