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DSST World Literature Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Irrational fear of a thing or situation
malevolent
phobia
automatic
autonomy
2. One called to give evidence; a person who pleads on another's behalf or casue.
advocate
ecology
sedentary
propensity
3. Bad sounds; disagreeable or discordant sounds
antiquated
credence
synchronize
cacaphony
4. A turning from the proper way; crooked
chronicle
impervious
devious
coherent
5. The right of self government
emissary
phobia
autonomy
ambiguous
6. A view in all directions
misanthrope
pandemic
panorama
ambiguous
7. One who loves people
philanthropist
malevolent
autopsy
ecology
8. To sympathize
commiserate
ebullient
precedent
endemic
9. One who lives shut back from the world
autopsy
biosphere
credulous
recluse
10. Without definite form or shape
amorphous
bibliophile
pedestrian
genesis
11. No way through; incapable of being passed through
impervious
autopsy
emissary
biosphere
12. The quality of having two meanings
malevolent
ambiguity
evoke
insidious
13. To drive around; uncertain; having two possible meanings
ambiguous
speculate
antiquity
circumspect
14. Anything out of its proper historical time
benign
symmetrical
miscreant
anachronism
15. A hanging forward; a natural inclination
atheist
odometer
missive
propensity
16. Not faithful; a person who does not believe in a particular religion
credulous
infidel
concur
sedentary
17. Harmless
evoke
equitable
benign
syllogism
18. Believing too readily on too little evidence; gullible
credulous
evoke
circumvent
bigamy
19. The art of handwriting
trilogy
phobia
credible
calligraphy
20. Excess of sugar in the blood
hyperglycemia
circumference
procede
infidel
21. Cautious; careful to consider possible consequences
bipartisan
symbiosis
circumspect
chronicle
22. Conflicting feelings toward a person or thing
phonetics
antecedent
ambivalence
symbiotic
23. To look at; to reflect on or ponder
chronicle
speculate
panacea
hyperbole
24. The branch of language study dealing with speech sounds and their symbols
phonetics
anachronism
synthesis
cacaphony
25. To place a yoke on; to conquer
contradict
subversive
advocate
subjugate
26. True; actual
ambiguity
veritable
convivial
disarray
27. Three literary - drmatic - or musial compositions that - though complete in itself - form a related series
circumference
symbiotic
trilogy
atheist (Andrew Jensen/William Kelemen definition)
28. Native to a particular people or country
concur
synchronize
cacaphony
endemic
29. Excessive control by one group of a commodity or service
monopoly
emissary
ambiguous
coherent
30. To continue
antiquity
anthropomorphism
procede
subjugate
31. One who hates people
propensity
colloquial
benign
misanthrope
32. Fond of eating - drinking - and being sociable together
circumference
bigamy
amorphous
convivial
33. The belief that there is only one God
monotheism
current
philanthropy
subversive
34. To cut in two - as a diameter bisects a circle
bisect
synchronize
credence
subjugate
35. Summed up together; complete or perfect
profusion
consummate
bibliophile
postpone
36. The birth or coming into being of anything;origin;creation
impervious
bigamy
genesis
symbiotic
37. Government by a single person
consummate
tripartite
calligraphy
autocracy
38. A person who recieves benefit
sedentary
beneficiary
genocide
consummate
39. One who seeks knowledge or wisdom through logic
syllogism
coherent
contradict
philosopher
40. A person one struggles against
antagonist
symbiotic
philanthropist
genesis
41. Sticking together; having orderly relation of parts
atheist
coherent
ambivalence
agnostic
42. The part of earth extending from the crust to the outer atmosphere in which things live
biosphere
benign
ambivalence
propensity
43. The substitution of a mild word in place of a distasteful or unpleasant one
synthesis
euphemism
emissary
hyperbole
44. Something that logically comes before another
amorphous
circumvent
antecedent
autopsy
45. A line carried around; the outer boundary line around a circular area
credible
circumference
posterity
syllogism
46. The attributing of human characteristics to a god - animal - or inanimate thing
genesis
credence
anthropomorphism
misanthrope
47. A pouring forth; an abundance.
antiquity
profusion
misanthrope
pandemic
48. A detailed drawing (writing on a map of the surface features of a region)
misanthrope
topography
circumvent
genesis
49. A seeing for oneself; a post-mortem examination of a body to discover the cause of death
phonetics
autopsy
amorphous
ebullient
50. The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment
excursion
revise
infidel
ecology