Ants and Grandmother Vocab

Question 1

(of a monarch) renounce one’s throne

Answer 1

abdicate

Question 2

Encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offense.

Answer 2

abet

Question 3

Regard with disgust and hatred.

Answer 3

abhor

Question 4

(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree.

Answer 4

abject

Question 5

Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.

Answer 5

abstain

Question 6

Agree to a demand, request, or treaty.

Answer 6

accede

Question 7

Become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions.

Answer 7

acclimate

Question 8

Break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.

Answer 8

adjourn

Question 9

Preventing success or development; harmful; unfavorable.

Answer 9

adverse

Question 10

Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

Answer 10

aesthetic

Question 11

Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.

Answer 11

affable

Question 12

Behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.

Answer 12

affectation

Question 13

(especially of a group or area) having a great deal of money; wealthy.

Answer 13

affluent

Question 14

A list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting.

Answer 14

agenda

Question 15

A whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements.

Answer 15

aggregate

Question 16

Able to move quickly and easily.

Answer 16

agile

Question 17

lizardlike animals

Answer 17

saurians

Question 18

treeless plains in South America

Answer 18

pampas

Question 19

Laborers in Spanish America

Answer 19

peons

Question 20

Show contempt for

Answer 20

flout

Question 21

A low dam

Answer 21

weir

Question 22

Food

Answer 22

provender

Question 23

Material such as sand or gravel deposited by moving water

Answer 23

alluvium

Question 24

Applications of warm, moist substances in the treatment of an injury

Answer 24

formentations

Question 25

Leniency; forgiveness

Answer 25

indulgence

Question 26

Making a twisted or distorted facial expression

Answer 26

grimacing

Question 27

Coated with a varnish made from shellac or resin

Answer 27

lacquered