AVID Week 17 Vocab Quiz

What word means "a temporary stay"?

• journey

• sojourn

• amble

• vexation

easily managed, easy to deal with

• voracious
• capacious
• ungainly
• tractable

not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive,or reticent

• conscientious

• imperceptible

• unobtrusive

• contemptuous

does not attract much attention

• supercilious
• unobtrusive
• fractious
• feign

attempting to please with flattery

• Meager

• Disarming

• Fawning

• Brutal

Word that means showing flattery or affection.

• Bemused

• Accumulate

• Cower

• Fawning

The political, economic, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group in order to maintain the status quo is known as...

• hegemany

• heggemonny

• heggemony

• hegemony

off-and-on

• rigor

• devastate

• incentive

• curtail

• intermittent

An abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects

• morbid

• respiration

• autopsy

• pulse

• deteriorate

hateful; unpleasant; offensive

• resist

• odious

• narcissist

• venture