#26-50 Vocab

Question 1

Dilatory

Answer 1

Inclined to waste time and lag behind

Question 2

Disparage

Answer 2

To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them

Question 3

Draught

Answer 3

A current of unpleasantly cold air blowing through a room

Question 4

Dray

Answer 4

A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses

Question 5

Dyspeptic/Dyspepsia

Answer 5

Always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion

Question 6

Elicit

Answer 6

To call forth, draw out, or provoke, to bring or draw out

Question 7

Emit

Answer 7

To send out a beam, noise, smell or gas

Question 8

Espionage

Answer 8

Spying, the discovering of secrets. especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business

Question 9

Facile

Answer 9

Easy, effortless

Question 10

Feign

Answer 10

To pretend, to dissemble, to misrepresent

Question 11

Fester

Answer 11

To become infected, to suppurate, an infection

Question 12

Festoon

Answer 12

Draped, decorated as for a parade or state event

Question 13

Fledgeling

Answer 13

New and inexperienced

Question 14

Gainsay

Answer 14

Challenge, dispute

Question 15

Genuflect

Answer 15

To bow as before a priest

Question 16

Grandeur

Answer 16

Magnificent, splendid, vast beauty

Question 17

Grudging

Answer 17

Done in an unwilling way, unwillingly

Question 18

Hack

Answer 18

A reporter, artist, or writer whose work is not very good

Question 19

Husband

Answer 19

To use something carefully so that you do not use all of it

Question 20

Illicit

Answer 20

Contrary to accepted morality or convention

Question 21

Illusory

Answer 21

Not real, based on illusion

Question 22

Imbibe

Answer 22

To drink, especially alcohol

Question 23

Inexorable

Answer 23

Without end, interminable

Question 24

Introspection

Answer 24

Examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Question 25

Kowtow

Answer 25

To show too mush respect to someone in authority, always obeying them and changing what you do in order to please them, what a “toady” does, sucking up