The Pact Vocabulary exam study guide 2024 with 100% correct answers

The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream ... Auxiliary additional; supplementary; reserve "He kept mostly to himself and played an auxiliary role." - The Pact (Page 8) We retooled music, which sounds sort of small and auxiliary, but I think we figured out a way to help the audience Susceptible admitting or capable of some specified treatment "And I believe that kids who grew up in less stable environments were more susceptible to pressure from friends to do the negative things that everyone else seem to be doing." - The Pact (Page 10) Officials who fell into "honey traps" would be susceptible to blackmail. Relented to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving. "Finally, Moms relented and took me to the barber." - The Pact (Page 17) She begged their father to contact him, refusing to relent until he sent an inquiring telegram. Marketable readily steady "Moms had never worked, and with little education she had few marketable skills." - The Pact (Page 21) Once you make others your subject, and their suffering a marketable took, you are no longer concerned about them but yourself. Belligerent warlike; given to waging war "He drank all the time and became belligerent and mean." - The Pact (Page 23) For those who have watched Murdoch at close quarters, his belligerent attitude came as no surprise. Pandora's Box a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems "I had a make-believe spot in the back of my mind- I thought of it as a trunk or Pandora's box - where I placed my bad experiences, stored them, and sealed them forever (or so I thought)." - The Pact (Page 25) The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration Hypothesis a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument. "The weirdest things sticks out of my mind about her: she taught me how to spell and define the word "hypothesis." - The Pact (Page 45) Each idea begins with a hypothesis, to put it into scientific terms. Predominately to be the stronger or leading element or force "The predominately black neighborhood around the school is mostly working-class, but there are pockets of high-crime areas that have caused problems for students over the years." - The Pact (Page 61) Republicans would do well to focus on these predominately suburban, private-sector-dependent families. Concocted to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery "Our in halls, we concocted an alternative plan." - The Pact (Page 70) I realized he had concocted some fictional chain of events in his twisted mind. Innately existing in one from birth; inborn; native: "I knew my friends weren't innately bad or stupid." - The Pact (Page 78) The man who is innately honest has no reason to fear the snares of fortune. Chastising to discipline, especially by corporal punishment "I told you not to be smoking back here," my friend yelled, chastising the man as though he were a child." - The Pact (Page 80) If all are going to be saved, what is the use of chastising oneself? Nonchalance the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness "It was their mannerisms and the look in their eyes, a kind of cocky nonchalance that said that nothing much really mattered." - The Pact (Page 85) A few mornings later the same bird gave me another and more amusing exhibition of his nonchalance. Reputation the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: "Dayton Street had been known for its skating rink, and what happened around the rink had helped earn the area its reputation." - The Pact (Page 87) It is Japan's misfortune that she is still unable to live down her reputation.