English 2: Vocabulary 8

Question 1

Perfidious

Answer 1

adj) deliberately faithless; treacherous

Question 2

Illicit

Answer 2

adj) forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized

Question 3

Discrepancy

Answer 3

n) an inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference

Question 4

Inundated

Answer 4

v) to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm (as if by a flood)

Question 5

Sumptuous

Answer 5

adj) costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish

Question 6

Inscrutable

Answer 6

adj) mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood

Question 7

Abeyance

Answer 7

n) a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action

Question 8

Primordial

Answer 8

adj) from earliest ties; primitive; fundamental; original

Question 9

Homogenous

Answer 9

adj) of the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts or elements; uniform

Question 10

Pervaded

Answer 10

v) to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout

Question 11

Harbinger

Answer 11

v) to announce; to indicate what will follow

n) a forerunner; a herald

Question 12

Emanated

Answer 12

v) to issue from; to originate from

Question 13

Demagogue

Answer 13

n) a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabble-rouser

Question 14

Prevaricated

Answer 14

v) to evade the truth

Question 15

Detriment

Answer 15

n) damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury

Question 16

Obnoxious

Answer 16

adj) very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful

Question 17

Chastise

Answer 17

v) to punish; to criticize severely; to scold

Question 18

Irrevocable

Answer 18

adj) not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable

Question 19

Deplore

Answer 19

v) to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of

Question 20

Interceded

Answer 20

v) to plead, or petition, on another’s behalf; to act as a mediator in a dispute