English 2: Vocabulary 3

Question 1

Guile

Answer 1

n) craftiness; deceit; cunning

Question 2

Proffer

Answer 2

v) to offer

n) an offer

Question 3

Seraphic

Answer 3

adj) angelic; of the highest order of angels

Question 4

Amorphous

Answer 4

adj) shapeless; of no particular form or type; not organized

Question 5

Decorum

Answer 5

n) proper action, speech, and dress; good manners and behavior; polite behavior

Question 6

Protege

Answer 6

n) someone whose welfare or career is guided and helped by a more influential person

Question 7

Sanguine

Answer 7

adj) naturally cheerful and hopeful; confident; having a ruddy (healthy red) complexion

Question 8

Doggerel

Answer 8

n) baldy written or trivia; verse, often with a singsong rhythm

Question 9

Ascetic

Answer 9

n) a person who practices unusual self-denial or discipline, often for religious reasons
adj) self-denying

Question 10

Facile

Answer 10

adj) easily done; performing or working with ease; adroit; not sincere or profound; superficial

Question 11

Implicit

Answer 11

adj) implied; naturally involved though not obviously evident; unquestioning; absolute

Question 12

Nondescript

Answer 12

adj) not having individual characteristics; lacking in distinctive qualities; drab; hard to describe

Question 13

Sundry

Answer 13

adj) various; miscellaneous

Question 14

Inveigle

Answer 14

v) to win over with trickery or flattery; to entice; to coax with deceitful talk; to dupe

Question 15

Dogma

Answer 15

n) a belief or set of beliefs held to be true, especially by a church pr other authority; a doctrine

Question 16

Scurrilous

Answer 16

adj) given to the use of abusive or indecent language; foulmouthed

Question 17

Parsimonious

Answer 17

adj) too economical; stingy; miserly

Question 18

Exhort

Answer 18

v) to urge strongly; to advise or warm earnestly; to admonish

Question 19

Nonentity

Answer 19

n) a person or thing of little or no importance; something that does not exist or that exists only in the imagination

Question 20

Vociferous

Answer 20

adj) loud and noisy; clamorous; demanding