20 Vocab Words Part 6

Question 1

1
: having a smooth rich flow
2
: filled with something (as honey) that sweetens

Answer 1

Mellifluous

Question 2

using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

Answer 2

Laconic

Question 3

1
a : deficient in or devoid of flexibility
b : appearing stiff and unyielding

Answer 3

Rigid

Question 4

1
a : having no fixed course : wandering
b archaic : nomadic
2
: transported from an original resting place especially by a glacier

Answer 4

Erratic

Question 5

characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound; also : commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality

Answer 5

Strident

Question 6

1

: sorrow for one’s sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God
2
: the act of rubbing together : friction; also : the act of wearing or grinding down by friction
3
: the act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse, or attack
4
: a reduction in numbers usually as a result of resignation, retirement, or death

Answer 6

Attrition

Question 7

to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part

Answer 7

Curtail

Question 8

a member of a monastic third order especially of lay people

Answer 8

Tertiary

Question 9

a coming into being or use

Answer 9

Advent

Question 10

containing obscenities, abuse, or slander

Answer 10

Scurrilous

Question 11

1
: markedly short and abrupt
2
: blunt in manner or speech often to the point of ungracious harshness

Answer 11

Brusque

Question 12

2
a (1) : a natural basin or depression in land (2) : a similar artificial basin (as for evaporating brine)
b : a drifting fragment of the flat thin ice that forms in bays or along the shore

Answer 12

Pan

Question 13

plural but sing or plural in constr often capitalized : an office of solemn praise to God forming with matins the first of the canonical hours

Answer 13

Laud

Question 14

1
: to laugh at contemptuously
2
: to subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule

Answer 14

Deride

Question 15

dull or ordinary

Answer 15

Prosaic

Question 16

a : to secure tightly : bind

b : to arrange for cooking by binding close the wings or legs of (a fowl)

Answer 16

Truss

Question 17

causing contraction of soft organic tissues

Answer 17

Astringent

Question 18

: hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence

Answer 18

Diffident

Question 19

requiring immediate aid or action

Answer 19

Exigent

Question 20

marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application

Answer 20

Assiduous