AVID Week 36

An award, honor, approval, or praise

• affinity

• affidavit

• adjunct

• accolades

praise

• accolade

• candor

• dromedary

• queue

Favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics:

• Dynasty

• Corrupt

• Emperor

• Nepotism

Which word means "the act of giving opportunities to others simply because of a personal relationship"?

• nepotism

• enmity

• bibliophile

of essentially equal value or significance

• tantamount
• subversive
• conducive
• amenable

adj. equal in seriousness

• heady

• tantamount

• ominous

• rampant

Unfortunately, many people were persuaded to vote for a ___________ who relied heavily on fear, anger, and xenophobia, rather than truth and logic.

• demagogue

• philanthropist

• dilettante

• connoisseur

Rabble-rousing leader

• Demagogue

• Camaraderie

• Intrepid

• Fraught

Something that makes the situation not as bad

• Vindicate

• Substantiate

• Extenuating

• Spurious

What word means serving to lessen the seriousness of an offence?

• extenuating

• circumlocutions

• raiment

• miscellany