VOCAB TEST

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Across
  1. 4. "His notebooks were marvels of scholarly exposition." Page 72 noun a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
  2. 10. "They had accepted their subservient role. They had been at the bottom of the ladder." Page 220 Adjective Useful in an inferior capacity
  3. 13. "Their educational attainments were noted, marraiges followed, illnesses tabulated, physcological health charted, and every promotion and job change dutifully recorded." Page 74 Verb to count, record, or list systematically
  4. 14. "That word, of course, has negative connotations these days." 105 noun a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular word although it need not be a part of the word's meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation
  5. 17. "The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air." 181 noun a road, apron, or runway
  6. 19. "Flom's early specialty was proxy fights, and that was not what we did, just like we don't do matrimonial work,"said Robert Rif kind, a longtime partner at Cravath, Swaine and Moore. Chapter 5, Page 127 (Book Page) Noun A proxy is a person, document, or system authorized to act as a substitute or representative for another.
  7. 20. “They took saliva samples from the students, both before and after the insult, to see if being called an asshole caused their levels of testosterone and cortisol –" pg 172 Noun a glucocorticoid produced by the adrenal cortex upon stimulation by ACTH that mediates various metabolic processes
  8. 23. "Canadian hockey is a meritocracy." 4 noun a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.
  9. 25. "He's a little subversive and libidinous. He has the flair for the dramatic." Page 87 adj seeking or intended to undermine an established system or institution.
Down
  1. 1. “Litigation was for hams, not for serious people. Corporations just didn’t sue each other in those days.” Chapter 5Pg. # 124 noun “the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating”
  2. 2. " You subpoenaed documents and took despositions and pored over court records until you had pit together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in a deadly quarrel." 164 Verb To serve a person/organzation with a legally binding order that compels them to appear in court
  3. 3. "Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken stepfather." 110 noun the quality of being cold, unpleasant and not welcoming or attractive
  4. 5. "He constructed out of odds and ends (typewriter, ribbon spools, for example) a homemade clock of the pendular type to illustrate some of the principles of chronometry" Page 72 noun the measuring of time
  5. 6. As one Berkeley scientist put it, more succinctly: "He couldn't run a hamburger stand." 113 Adverb in a way that expresses what needs to be said clearly and without unnecessary words:
  6. 7. "Here was a world that was the purest of meritocracies." 37 verb deserving great praise
  7. 8. "This was not just a revolution. It was a revelation." 44 noun an act of revealing or communicating divine truth
  8. 9. "To use the technical term, general intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other." 115 Adjective : intersecting or lying at right angles : having perpendicular slopes or tangents at the point of intersection
  9. 11. "The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air." 181 noun a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
  10. 12. “— and this for a region that never numbered more than fifteen thousand people and where many violent acts never even made it to the indictment stage.” 165 Noun a formal accusation or general letter that a person has committed a crime
  11. 15. "it was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly binary arbitrary advantage." 37 adjective "Based on a chance rather than being planned or based on reason."
  12. 16. Over the years, many potential explanations have been examined and debated, and the consensus appears to be that region was plagued by a particularly virulent strain of what sociologists call a "culture of honor." 166 adj exteremly harsh and dangrous
  13. 18. But she had gone to work as a seamstress at the age of fifteen and had become a prominent garment union organizer, and what you learn in that world is that through your own powers of persuasion and initiative, you can take your kids to Carnegie Hall. Noun A seamstress is a person, traditionally a woman, whose occupation involves sewing clothing, fabrics, and apparel, specializing in garment construction, alterations, or repairs
  14. 19. "As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies." 17 adjective exhibiting mature qualities at an ususually early age.
  15. 21. "The amid the tumultuous applause, out walked Gordie Howie, one of the legends of the game." 15 adjective marked by tumult; loud, excited, emotional
  16. 22. “You can imagine the scene: a dark paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet…” Chapter 5 (DIGITAL PAGE # 6)Pg. # 121 adjective “ worn or shredded at the ends or edges”
  17. 24. "...it was to include an addendum listing all the new Korean Airline accidents that happened since it's investigation began." Page 180 Noun An item of additional material added at the end of a book or document typically in order to correct, clarify, or supplement something.