2nd quiz words

Question 1

treacly

Answer 1

excessively sweet or sentimental

Question 2

sepulchral

Answer 2

of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.

proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.

Question 3

unutterable

Answer 3

not communicable by utterance; unspeakable; beyond expression: unutterable joy

not utterable; not pronounceable: an unutterable foreign word.

Question 4

malicious

Answer 4

full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful: malicious gossip

Question 5

vigilance

Answer 5

state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness

Question 6

aryan

Answer 6

a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.

a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock.

Question 7

lackey

Answer 7

a slavishly submissive follower; toady

Question 8

plausible

Answer 8

having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.

well-spoken and apparently, but often deceptively, worthy of confidence or trust: a plausible commentator.

Question 9

emaciated

Answer 9

abnormally thin; wasted by starvation; gaunt; haggard; scrawny

Question 10

cavernous

Answer 10

being, resembling, or suggestive of a cavern: a vast, cavernous room.

deep-set: cavernous eyes.

hollow and deep-sounding: a cavernous voice.

Question 11

perspicacity

Answer 11

Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.

Question 12

scabrous

Answer 12

indecent or scandalous; risqué; obscene: scabrous books.

full of difficulties.

Question 13

decrepitude

Answer 13

decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, esp. from old age.

Question 14

illusory

Answer 14

causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.

of the nature of an illusion; unreal.

Question 15

docility

Answer 15

easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.

readily trained or taught; teachable.

Question 16

strident

Answer 16

making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.

having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.

Question 17

implacable

Answer 17

not able to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.

Question 18

elated

Answer 18

very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits: an elated winner of a contest.

Question 19

dissemble

Answer 19

to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one’s incompetence in business.

to put on the appearance of; feign: to dissemble innocence.

Question 20

joviality

Answer 20

the state or quality of being joyful; merriment; jollity.

Question 21

futility

Answer 21

The quality of having no useful result; ineffectiveness; uselessness.

Question 22

deference

Answer 22

respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.

respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.

Question 23

nuance

Answer 23

a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.

a very slight difference or variation in color or tone.

Question 24

abjection

Answer 24

the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible

Question 25

timbre

Answer 25

the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color.