11th Grade Q4

Question 1

Acclivity

Answer 1

(noun) an ascending slope (of a hill)

Question 2

Becloud

Answer 2

(verb) to make less visible, to obscure, to blur

Question 3

Caustic

Answer 3

(adj) sarcastic

Question 4

Doctrinare

Answer 4

(adj) seeking to impose a belief or set of beliefs in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

Question 5

Effluvia

Answer 5

(noun) waste

Question 6

Frenetic

Answer 6

(adj) frenzied, fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way

Question 7

Hedonist

Answer 7

(noun) one who seeks pleasure as a goal

Question 8

Ingratiate

Answer 8

(verb) to gain favor with another by deliberate effort

Question 9

Libertarian

Answer 9

(noun) one who advocates for individual rights and free will

Question 10

Malfeasance

Answer 10

(noun) wrong doing, misconduct

Question 11

Gamely

Answer 11

(adv) bravely, enthusiastically

Question 12

Ossify

Answer 12

(verb) to change into bone, to become hardened

Question 13

Preternatural

Answer 13

(adj) existing outside of nature, supernatural, beyond what is normal or natural

Question 14

Reprove

Answer 14

(verb) to criticize or correct, usually in a gentle manor

Question 15

Stringent

Answer 15

(adj) rigorous standards

Question 16

Usury

Answer 16

(noun) the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates, lending money and expecting it to be paid back with interest

Question 17

Vim

Answer 17

(noun) vitality, energy

Question 18

Virility

Answer 18

(noun) the quality of having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive; manliness
(hehehe. ..sex)

Question 19

Wax

Answer 19

(verb) to increase gradually, to begin to be

Question 20

Culpable

Answer 20

(adj) deserving blame

Question 21

Askance

Answer 21

(adv) with disapproval, with a skeptical sideways glance

Question 22

Bursar

Answer 22

(noun) a treasurer or a keeper of funds

Question 23

Chimerical

Answer 23

(adj) fanciful; imaginary; impossible

Question 24

Dogged

Answer 24

(adj.) stubbornly preserving; resolved; resolute

Question 25

Eschew

Answer 25

(verb) to shun; to avoid

Question 26

Comely

Answer 26

(adj) attractive (typically used for women)

Question 27

Tintinnabulation

Answer 27

(noun) the lingering sound of a ringing bell

Tintinnabulations may please the ear,
But soon fade fast so no one else may hear.

Question 28

Lampoon

Answer 28

(verb) to ridicule with satire; to publicly criticize using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.

Question 29

Cadaver

Answer 29

(noun) a dead body

Question 30

Deprave

Answer 30

(verb) to make morally bad or evil

Question 31

Mephitic

Answer 31

(adj) fowl smelling

Question 32

Moribund

Answer 32

(adj) being in a decaying or dying condition

Question 33

Officious

Answer 33

(adj) unnecessarily helpful, helping in a way that gets in the way

Question 34

Perfidious

Answer 34

(adj) faithless, untrustworthy, disloyal

Question 35

Recalcitrant

Answer 35

(adj) stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority

“reh cal si crant”

Question 36

Saturnine

Answer 36

(adj) sullen, gloomy, depressed

Question 37

Tendentious

Answer 37

(adj) advancing a point of view, biased

Question 38

Vainglorious

Answer 38

(adj) boastful and pompous

Question 39

Winnow

Answer 39

(verb) to separate the good from the bad

Question 40

Zonk

Answer 40

(verb) to stun, to stupefy