This Is About "His" Place in It All Quiz

Answer: chisel

>A chisel is a tool with a signature pointed edge which can be used to carve, chip or cut metal, wood or stone.
>A thistle is a flowering plant mainly belonging to the family Asteraceae. Its unforgettable feature is its prickles which serve to keep plant-eating animals from consuming it.
>A whisk is a tool which stirs, blends, whips up materials into a mixture. Whisk is also a verb describing the motion used to stir, whip up or blend.
>Whist is a card game which seems to date back to the 18th century. It is a trick-taking game.

Answer: histrionic

>Histrionic may refer to an actual personality disorder, or it may simply be saying that someone is being affected and excessive emotionally.
>Historic is an adjective which says that something had an effect on history or in history. Historical, on the other hand, merely states that something occurred in history or in the past, not that it had an importance in it.
>Histories are the records of events happening to a people, a nation, or part of the world. These may or may not be oral; they may or may not be chronological.
>Historian is the person who studies or writes histories.

Answer: whistle

>Whistle is an instrument called an aerophone. It makes sound after receiving a burst of air. To whistle is a verb for sound resulting from the pursing of lips which some people can do very musically. Some people can whistle through their fingers. Lauren Bacall made whistling more famous by saying, in the 1944 film, 'To Have and Have Not,' "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
>Hashish is a specially prepared, many say more potent, version of the cannabis plant.
>Schism refers to a division or separation in the structure, beliefs, leadership of political parties, ecclesiastical organizations, belief systems.
>Polyhistor refers to a person of much learning or erudition.

Answer: histologist

>An histologist studies the tissues of humans, animals and plants microscopically.
>Histograms are visual presentations of data by specific, detailed graphical means. Karl Pearson was said to introduce the word in 1895, in the sense of an "historical diagram."
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>Histoid is an adjective describing something as being like or of the nature of the tissues of the body in terms of its structure.
>Histology is the formal organized study of the microscopic structure of the tissues of plants, animals and humans.

Answer: sophistry

>Sophistry refers to a way of presenting an argument which is full of distortions and misleading claims.
>Sophistication refers to a high level of culture, study, manners, grace of manner.
>Theosophist is a person who believes in Theosophy. Theosophists are truth- loving and often mystical. Theosophy has had an influence particularly in the field of music.
>Allomorphism names a change in what is called the crystalline form of a compound, but it is a change without an alternation in the chemical composition. In linguistics, it applies to variations in the form of a morpheme.

Answer: catechist

>A catechist is a teacher specifically in matters of Christian doctrine.
>Erethism is a medical condition which involves an abnormal response of a tissue or organ to stimulation.
>Histamine refers to a substance highly involved in the body's reaction to allergic triggers.
>Sylphish is an adjective referring either to a poised younger woman or to imagined beings living in the air.

Answer: enfranchising

>Enfranchising refers to giving someone the vote.
>Hissing refers to a peculiar sharp sound one makes that sounds full of the letter 's,' or it may be a sound of disapproval.
>Philosophizing is the intransitive action of thinking about how (often abstract) things fit together.
>Whishting is primarily an Irish interjection which asks people to be quiet--somewhat like saying "hush" or "silence."

Answer: anti-monarchist

>An anti-monarchist is an individual opposed philosophically to the existence of monarchy or to particular monarchs.
>Anthropomorphism is the act of attributing human qualities, motives, or thinking to inanimate beings or concepts and the like.
>Whatshisname is a way of alluding to someone whose name you cannot remember or come up with.
>An historiography may be either the organized study of the principles underlying the discipline called history or a grouping of writings dealing with particular findings on a specific historical subject.

Answer: indehiscence

>Indehiscence is a term in botany which refers to fruit not splitting open at maturity.
>Obeahism is a kind of sorcery.
>Dashi is the name of a thin soup made from tuna or bonito. Dashis is the plural.
>Anarchism is a philosophy which believes that government should have a very limited role in people's lives. There are many approaches to anarchy in terms of actions proposed and consequences for individuals, who are generally considered to be free.

Answer: calligraphist

>A calligraphist is someone whose penmanship is intricate and beautiful. The word means "beautiful writing." Until the invention of the printing press, books were handwritten by individual scribes in this lovely looking way.
>A chiseler is someone who is out to cheat or scam another.
>Gymnosophists is the name (derived from the Greek for 'naked philosophers') referring to very religious people who eschewed the material life and would, for example, apparently often be dressed with clothes made from the tree bark and avoid all luxuries whatsoever.
>A masochist is a person whose gratification or satisfaction comes from receiving pain or suffering, physical, emotional or mental.