English 2: Vocabulary 9

Question 1

Extricate

Answer 1

v) to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free

Question 2

Menials

Answer 2

adj) of or suited to a servant; servile

n) a domestic servant; a servile person

Question 3

Rampant

Answer 3

adj) growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread

Question 4

Cajole

Answer 4

v) to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle

Question 5

Pestilence

Answer 5

n) a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor

Question 6

Anarchy

Answer 6

n) the absence of government or law; political disorder

Question 7

Nadir

Answer 7

n) the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point

Question 8

Ethnology

Answer 8

n) the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures

Question 9

Impaired

Answer 9

v) to make worse; to damage or weaken

Question 10

Commodious

Answer 10

adj) roomy; spacious

Question 11

Profuse

Answer 11

adj) giving freely; extravagant; plentiful

Question 12

Virulent

Answer 12

adj) very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful

Question 13

Strident

Answer 13

adj) having or making a harsh sound; shrill

Question 14

Consign

Answer 14

v) to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place

Question 15

Elocution

Answer 15

n) the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading

Question 16

Subversion

Answer 16

n) the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government

Question 17

Cadaverous

Answer 17

adj) corpselike; pale and ghastly; thin and gaunt; haggard

Question 18

Incorrigible

Answer 18

n) a person who will not be reformed

adj) incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad

Question 19

Promulgate

Answer 19

v) to make known to the public, declare; to make widespread

Question 20

Maim

Answer 20

v) to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple