BBC Vocab Quiz #2

Question 1

Presage

Answer 1

Omen, warning,

1) something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication
2) to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow

Question 2

Viscid

Answer 2

sticky, tacky

Question 3

Luridly

Answer 3

gruesome, horrible, revolting, unrestraint

Question 4

Carnal

Answer 4

1) pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites;

Question 5

Profane

Answer 5

disrespectful, rude, irreligious, pagan,

1) not devoted to holy or religious purposes

Question 6

Atavistic

Answer 6

1) relating to the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations.

Question 7

Inexpiable

Answer 7

unforgivable, unatonable

Question 8

Oblique

Answer 8

indirect, slanted (not straight)

Question 9

Indolent

Answer 9

lazy, slothful, inactive

Question 10

Intrepid

Answer 10

brave, fearless, courageous

Question 11

Connote

Answer 11

Suggest

Question 12

Stoicism

Answer 12

1) One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.

Question 13

Sublimate

Answer 13

1) to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.

(substituting bad behavior for good)

Question 14

Aberrant

Answer 14

1) departing from the right, normal, or usual course.

2) deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal.

Question 15

Cortege

Answer 15

procession, usually with an entourage

Question 16

Peroration

Answer 16

a long speech

Question 17

Inconsolable

Answer 17

not comforting

Question 18

Gallivanting

Answer 18

wandering, aimlessly walking (usually for no reason)

Question 19

Anneal

Answer 19

1) to remove or prevent internal stress.
2) to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.
3) to toughen or temper.

Question 20

Dubiously

Answer 20

doubtfully