Core Vocab II

Question 1

exhort

Answer 1

to encourage, urge, pep talk, implore

Question 2

antipathy

Answer 2

strong dislike

“anti + pathy”

Question 3

digress

Answer 3

to depart from a subject, wander, ramble
“i digress”
“gress - to step (progress, regress, transgress, egress)”

Question 4

tenacious

Answer 4

showing great determination

“ten - to hold (tenet - opinion held true by someone, tenable - capable of being held)”

Question 5

indulgent

Answer 5

overly tolerant

Question 6

polarize

Answer 6

to create disunity or dissension, break up

Question 7

nebulous

Answer 7

vague, cloudy, misty

“nebula - far and vague”

Question 8

ephemeral, evanescent

Answer 8

very brief, transient

Question 9

perennial

Answer 9

returning year after year, enduring

Question 10

penchant, predilection, propensity

Answer 10

a liking for something, a bent

Question 11

capricious, mercurial, fickle

Answer 11

very changeable

Question 12

boorish, uncouth, crass

Answer 12

vulgar, crude, unrefined

Question 13

indignant

Answer 13

characterized by outrage at something that is perceived as unjust

Question 14

stymie

Answer 14

to stop, thwart, frustrate, prevent

Question 15

adroit, deft

Answer 15

adept, having or showing great skill

“adroit - right - right handed - good (opposed to maladroit - lefthanded - bad)”

Question 16

admonish

Answer 16

to earnestly caution, warn

“mon - to warn, remind (monitor, monument, admonition (warning))”

Question 17

incontrovertible

Answer 17

impossible to deny, true

Question 18

voracious, rapcious, ravenous

Answer 18

having a huge appetite

Question 19

callous

Answer 19

unfeeling, insensitive, emotionally hardened

“callouses are hard”

Question 20

intrepid

Answer 20

courageous, fearless, resolute

Question 21

convoluted

Answer 21

winding, twisting, intricate and difficult to understand

Question 22

itinerant

Answer 22

migrating from place to place, not sedentary

“you need an itinerary for vacations”

Question 23

poignant

Answer 23

moving, touching

Question 24

impetus

Answer 24

stimulus/encouragement that results in increased activity