Last Vocab from Newsweek

1. Quintessential
2. Syn: typical
3. The art gallery was filled with quintessential sculptures of the Greek times.
4. the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
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1. guffaw
2. Syn: laugh
3. Sitcoms have been using fake audience guffaws since the 50's to make their shows funnier.
4. a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
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1. impromtu
2. Syn: extemporaneous
3. When the actor forgot his lines, he started to say impromptu lines.
4. made or done without previous preparation.

Vocab from Newsweeks

1. centrist

2. general sense: Because "centrist" sounds similar to "center," it hints at the definition.

3. The campaign manager tried to make his candidate look more centrist to the public in order to get more votes.

4. a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.

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1. anonymity
2. syn: obscurity
3. The person who called the police about the domestic disturbance preferred to remain annoynomous.
4. the state or quality of being anonymous.

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1. xenophobic
2. general sense: Because the word contains "phobia" it infers that it is a fear of something.
3. The level of xenophobia has risen dramatically in the U.S. since September11, 2001.
4. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

Vocab from Newsweeks

1. Insurgency
2. My background knowledge of the war and the fact that we're fighting a guerilla warfare right now helped me figure out that there's been a lot of uprisings.
3. The prisoners plotted out an insurgency against the guards of the prison.
4. rebellion within a group, as by members against leaders; uprising

Vocab from Newsweeks

1. Privations
2. "He became a squared-away soldier, demanding of his troops yet sleeping and eating with them, and sharing their privations and dangers." The sentence that the word was in helped me understand what the word ment more, after i looked up the definition. The sentence hinted that the word ment something that was a disadvantage to Wright by including the fact that he went through "dangers" with his troops as well.
3. The poor man that lived in a cardboard box has more privations than the wealthy man that lives a house few blocks away.
4. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.

Vocab from Newsweeks

1. Scion
2. "Five years on, the war is transforming the American officer corps." My general knowledge of the war in Iraq and the hints in the sentence saying that the soldiers are being transformed, and the newer soldiers are learning the new techniques of war.
3. Prince Aragorn is the scion of the King of Gondor.
4. A descendant or heir.