Question 1

avant-garde

Accepted Answer

adjective
1.	of or pertaining to the experimental treatment of artistic, musical, or literary material.
2.	belonging to the avant-garde: an avant-garde composer.
3.	unorthodox or daring; radical.

Question 2

rabble

Accepted Answer

–noun
1.	a disorderly crowd; mob.
2.	the rabble, the lower classes; the common people: The nobility held the rabble in complete contempt.
–verb (used with object)
1.	to beset as a rabble does; mob.

Question 3

cultivated

Accepted Answer

–adjective
1. 	prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
2. 	produced or improved by cultivation, as a plant.
3. 	educated; refined; cultured: cultivated tastes.

Question 4

frivolities

Accepted Answer

–noun, plural -ties for 2.
1. 	the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
2. 	a frivolous act or thing: It was a frivolity he had a hard time living down.

Question 5

clandestine

Accepted Answer

–adjective
characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.

Question 6

diabolical

Accepted Answer

–adjective
1. 	having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
2. 	pertaining to or actuated by a devil.

Question 7

leftist

Accepted Answer

–noun
1. 	a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
–adjective
2.	of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or advocated by the political Left.

Question 8

proletariat

Accepted Answer

–noun
1. 	the class of wage earners, esp. those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class.

Question 9

context

Accepted Answer

) –noun
1. 	the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect: You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context.
2. 	the set of circumstances or fa

Question 10

civilized

Accepted Answer

87) –adjective
1. 	having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
2. 	polite; well-bred; refined.

Question 11

reservoir

Accepted Answer

1. 	a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
a large or extra supply or stock; reserve: a reservoir of knowledge.

Question 12

secular

Accepted Answer

–adjective
1. 	of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
2. 	not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred ): secular music.

Question 13

ideology

Accepted Answer

–noun, plural -gies.
1. 	the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.

Question 14

imperative

Accepted Answer

–adjective
1. 	absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
–noun
2. 	a command.

Question 15

rudimentary

Accepted Answer

) –adjective
	primitive

Question 16

epoch

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.: The treaty ushered in an epoch of peace and good will.
	2. 	the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything.

Question 17

nostalgia

Accepted Answer

) –noun
	a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.

Question 18

lackey

Accepted Answer

) –noun
	a servile follower

Question 19

peon

Accepted Answer

–noun 
	any person of low social status, esp. one who does work regarded as menial or unskilled; drudge.

Question 20

fundamentalism

Accepted Answer

)–noun
	strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives.

Question 21

retrospect

Accepted Answer

noun
	contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc. 
—Idiom: in retrospect, in looking back on past events; upon reflection: It was, in retrospect, the happiest day of her life.

Question 22

banal

Accepted Answer

)–adjective
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.

Question 23

intelligentsia

Accepted Answer

–plural noun
intellectuals considered as a group or class, esp. as a cultural, social, or political elite.

Question 24

conviction

Accepted Answer

) –noun
	1. 	a fixed or firm belief.
	2. 	the act of convicting.

Question 25

imbecile

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	Psychology. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50.
2. 	a dunce; blockhead; dolt.

Question 26

obscurantism

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
	2. 	deliberate obscurity or evasion of clarity.

Question 27

intransigence

Accepted Answer

–adjective
	1. 	refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
			   –noun
2. 	a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.

Question 28

perspicacity

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
2. 	Archaic. keen vision.

Question 29

subversion

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	an act or instance of subverting.
	2. 	the state of being subverted; destruction.
	3. 	something that subverts or overthrows.

Question 30

propaganda

Accepted Answer

–noun
	1. 	information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
	2. 	the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.

Question	Answer
avant-garde	adjective 1. of or pertaining to the experimental treatment of artistic, musical, or literary material. 2. belonging to the avant-garde: an avant-garde composer. 3. unorthodox or daring; radical.
rabble	–noun 1. a disorderly crowd; mob. 2. the rabble, the lower classes; the common people: The nobility held the rabble in complete contempt. –verb (used with object) 1. to beset as a rabble does; mob.
cultivated	–adjective 1. prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land. 2. produced or improved by cultivation, as a plant. 3. educated; refined; cultured: cultivated tastes.
frivolities	–noun, plural -ties for 2. 1. the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras. 2. a frivolous act or thing: It was a frivolity he had a hard time living down.
clandestine	–adjective characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
diabolical	–adjective 1. having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot. 2. pertaining to or actuated by a devil.
leftist	–noun 1. a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views. –adjective 2. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or advocated by the political Left.
proletariat	–noun 1. the class of wage earners, esp. those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class.
context	) –noun 1. the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect: You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context. 2. the set of circumstances or fa
civilized	87) –adjective 1. having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc. 2. polite; well-bred; refined.
reservoir	1. a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc. a large or extra supply or stock; reserve: a reservoir of knowledge.
secular	–adjective 1. of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests. 2. not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred ): secular music.
ideology	–noun, plural -gies. 1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
imperative	–adjective 1. absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave. –noun 2. a command.
rudimentary	) –adjective primitive
epoch	–noun 1. a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.: The treaty ushered in an epoch of peace and good will. 2. the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything.
nostalgia	) –noun a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
lackey	) –noun a servile follower
peon	–noun any person of low social status, esp. one who does work regarded as menial or unskilled; drudge.
fundamentalism	)–noun strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives.
retrospect	noun contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc. —Idiom: in retrospect, in looking back on past events; upon reflection: It was, in retrospect, the happiest day of her life.
banal	)–adjective devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
intelligentsia	–plural noun intellectuals considered as a group or class, esp. as a cultural, social, or political elite.
conviction	) –noun 1. a fixed or firm belief. 2. the act of convicting.
imbecile	–noun 1. Psychology. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50. 2. a dunce; blockhead; dolt.
obscurantism	–noun 1. opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge. 2. deliberate obscurity or evasion of clarity.
intransigence	–adjective 1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible. –noun 2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
perspicacity	–noun 1. keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration. 2. Archaic. keen vision.
subversion	–noun 1. an act or instance of subverting. 2. the state of being subverted; destruction. 3. something that subverts or overthrows.
propaganda	–noun 1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.

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