Vocabulary Quiz #1: Transcendentalism and Poetry

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word transcend?

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

• A system of beliefs and values

• to rise above or beyond, exceed

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word manifest?

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

• adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word abolition?

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• the right to vote in political elections

• the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word "suffrage?"

• the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

• the right to vote in political elections

• anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power

• possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word philosophy?

• A system of beliefs and values

• to rise above or beyond, exceed

• Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word spirituality?

• anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power.

• Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word conformity?

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

• Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• the right to vote in political elections

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word intuition?

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

• the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word conscience?

• anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

• an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word potential?

• to make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

• anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power

• possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality