English 11 - set #9

Question 1

affable

Answer 1

adj. 1. easy to speak to;
amiable; 2. mild;
gentle; benign

Question 2

apocryphal

Answer 2

adj. of doubtful origin;
spurious

Question 3

arbitrary

Answer 3

adj. subject to individual judgment

Question 4

banal

Answer 4

adj. common, dull, ordinary

Question 5

esoteric

Answer 5

adj. understood by only a select few

Question 6

exigency

Answer 6

n. that which is required
in a particular
situation – usu. plural

Question 7

fallacious

Answer 7

adj. 1. embodying a
fallacy; 2. tending to
deceive or mislead

Question 8

flagrant

Answer 8

adj. shocking; outstandingly bad

Question 9

fracas

Answer 9

n. a noisy quarrel; uproar; brawl

Question 10

incessant

Answer 10

adj. unceasing; never ending

Question 11

irrefragable

Answer 11

adj. not to be refuted or contested

Question 12

intangible

Answer 12

adj. abstract; not capable
of being touched or
felt

Question 13

profligate

Answer 13

adj. 1. completely given up
to dissipation and
licentiousness;
2. wildly extravagant;
prodigal

Question 14

precarious

Answer 14

adj. dangerously unstable,
i.e. in a precarious
position

Question 15

solicit

Answer 15

v. to ask for; to seek

Question 16

relegate

Answer 16

v. 1. to send into exile;
2. to assign to a place
of insignificance or of
oblivion; put out of
sight or mind

Question 17

respite

Answer 17

n. 1. a period of
temporary delay;
2. an interval of rest
or relief

Question 18

saccharine

Answer 18

adj 1. overly or sickishly
sweet; 2. overly
sentimental; mawkish

Question 19

supercilious

Answer 19

adj. haughty; arrogant

Question 20

sycophant

Answer 20

n. a servile self-seeking flatterer