ENGLISH 3 UNIT 3

Question 1

ABSTEMIOUS

Answer 1

ADJ

-not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking

Question 2

CENSURABLE

Answer 2

ADJ

-deserving censure or blame

Question 3

CONTINGENT

Answer 3

ADJ
-subject to change
-occurring or existing only if certain circumstances are the case
NOUN
-a group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group

Question 4

CORROBORATE

Answer 4

VERB

-confirm or give support to (a statement or theory, or finding)

Question 5

DENIZEN

Answer 5

NOUN

• an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place
• a foreigner allowed certain rights in the adopted country

Question 6

DISCURSIVE

Answer 6

ADJECTIVE

• digressing from subject to subject
• relating to discourse or modes of discourse

Question 7

DISSEMINATE

Answer 7

VERB

• spread (something, especially information) widely
• spread throughout the body or an organ

Question 8

DOWDY

Answer 8

ADJ

-(of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and without and without style in appearance (typically of a used woman)

Question 9

FLORID

Answer 9

ADJ

• having a red or flushed complexion
• elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated
• (of language) using unusual words or complicated rhetorical constructions
• (of a disease or its manifestations) occurring in a fully developed form

Question 10

FOIST

Answer 10

VERB

-impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on

Question 11

GAUCHE

Answer 11

ADJ

-lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward

Question 12

HERESY

Answer 12

ADJ

-belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian doctrine)

Question 13

INCULCATE

Answer 13

VERB

• instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction
• teach (someone) an attitude, idea, or habit, by persistent, instruction

Question 14

PALPABLE

Answer 14

ADJ

• (of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible
• plain to see or comprehend
• able to be touched or felt

Question 15

PERCEPTIVE

Answer 15

ADJ

-having or showing sensitive insight

Question 16

PERNICIOUS

Answer 16

ADJ

-having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

Question 17

SALIENT

Answer 17

ADJ

• most noticeable or important
• prominent or conspicuous
• (of an angle) pointing outward

Question 18

SATIATE

Answer 18

VERB
-another term for sate
NOUN 
ADJECTIVE
-satisfied to the full; satiate

Question 19

SEAR

Answer 19

VERB

• burn or scorch the surface of (something) with a sudden intense heat
• (of pain) be experienced as a sudden, burning sensation
• brown (food) quickly at a high temperature so that it will retain its juices in subsequent cooking

Question 20

SPECIOUS

Answer 20

ADJ

• superficially plausible, but actually wrong
• misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive