Lesson 9 (Zebra)
Something many Germans did to the Berlin Wall in an act of defiance
What is (to) deface?
Something I might offer someone whom I neither like nor respect
What is (an) affront?
Something Vietnam refused to do to the United States even after years of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths
What is capitulation or (to) capitulate?
The word that completes this sentence: "Much of Eastern Europe was the ________________ of the Soviet Union during the Cold War."
The southeastern European country in which Elie Wiesel was born
What is Romania?
Something a student exhibits when they finish with a C average but ask for a B.
What is effrontery?
DAILY DOUBLE
The thing the world is on as the climate crisis spirals out of control
A synonym for outward appearance
What is (a) facade?
An antonym for excited, passionate, and inspired
What is apathetic?
The current year of the Islamic calendar (within 50 years)
What is 1444?
Part; component; side
What is facet?
Thought
What is cerebration?
The opposite of socialism
What is capitalism?
A word an uxurious husband might use to describe his controlling wife
What is domineering?
The language that Lady Rainicorn speaks in Adventure Time
What is Korean?
Something psychologists may encourage you to do with your fears
What is (to) confront?
Something teachers sometimes asks students to do to demonstrate their understanding
What is recapitulation or (to) recapitulate?
A word to describe Ayn Rand, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein
What is cerebral?
An antonym for moribund
What is nascent?
A mountainous, autonomous, primarily Buddhist country bordering India and China
What is Nepal?
What the atomic bombs did to the end of World War II
What is (to) precipitate?
To obscure; to hide
What is (to) efface?
What Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed to execute people more humanely
What is (to) decapitate?
The word that fills in this blank: "Mr. Jones was a genuine pedagogue who cared about his students' learning. Mrs. Jones was an annoying ____________ who liked to show off her obscure knowledge."
What is (a) pedant?
The European nation that colonized Angola and Mozambique
What is Portugal?