Chapter 16 Variety of personal characteristics

Question 1

obsequious

Answer 1

those who follow rather than lead usually in a menial, subordinate, or inferior positions

Question 2

querulous

Answer 2

full of complaints, constantly nagging, harping, fretful, petulant

Question 3

nagging

Answer 3

Continually complaining or faultfinding

Question 4

harping

Answer 4

repeatedly comeback to a subject; persistently complain about

Question 5

fretful

Answer 5

Habitually complaining

Question 6

petulant

Answer 6

Easily irritated or annoyed

Question 7

supercilious

Answer 7

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one viewsas unworthy

Question 8

obstreperous

Answer 8

(Latin strepo: to make noise) anyone who is unruly, boisterous, resistant to authority, unmanageable and in a noisy troublesome manner is obstreperous

Question 9

unruly

Answer 9

1. Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Unwilling to submit to authority
3. Failing to follow rules or orders

Question 10

impecunious

Answer 10

(latin pecus: cattle) Someone who is habitually without funds
NOT a synonym of indignant, destitute
coz it does not neccessarily imply living in reduced circumstances or want, but quite simply short of cash- habitually

Question 11

pecuniary

Answer 11

pertaining to money

Question 12

chivalrous

Answer 12

Man who has a knightly attitude to women

Question 13

cavalcade

Answer 13

procession of persons on horseback

Question 14

cavalier

Answer 14

attitude that are haughty, unmindful of others’ feelings

Question 15

cavalry

Answer 15

the mounted, or horsed part of the army

Question 16

equestrian

Answer 16

a horseman

Question 17

equestrienne

Answer 17

a horsewoman

Question 18

equine

Answer 18

horselike

Question 19

innocuous

Answer 19

(Latin noceo : to injure) harmless, unlikely to get you into trouble

Question 20

noxious

Answer 20

harmful, poisonous; unwholesome

Question 21

bibulous

Answer 21

(bibo : to drink) overfondedness for drinks with pronounced alcoholic content

Question 22

imbibe

Answer 22

to drink in, soak up, absorb

Question 23

bib

Answer 23

upper part of an apron, or an apronlike napkin tied around a child’s neck

Question 24

cadaverous

Answer 24

cado : to fall

pale, gaunt, thin, haggard, with sunken eyes and wasted limbs

Question 25

cadaver

Answer 25

a corpse

Question 26

decadent

Answer 26

falling down, decline

figuratively refer to moral or spiritual dacay

Question 27

dolorous

Answer 27

doleo: to suffer

who is mournful or sad

Question 28

dolour

Answer 28

a poetic synonym of grief

Question 29

doleful

Answer 29

refering to somewhat humorously to exaggerated dismalness, sadness, dreriness

Question 30

condole

Answer 30

to suffer or grieve with synonym of commiserate

Question 31

condolences

Answer 31

An expression of sympathy with another’s grief