English Vocabulary 1.1 (2013)

Question 1

Demure

Answer 1

(adj.) modest and reserved
Syn.: timid, bashful, shy, innocent, prim
Ant.: extroverted, bold, brave, shameless, aggressive

Question 2

Xenophobic

Answer 2

(adj.) fearful or hateful of strangers or foreigners or anything that is foreign
Syn.: biased, indignant, fractious, dogmatic, disdainful
Ant.: fair, impartial, nice, tolerant, unprejudiced

Question 3

Vespiary

Answer 3

(n.) a nest or colony of hornets or wasps

Question 4

Tenacious

Answer 4

(adj.) holding or tending to hold firmly; persistent
Syn.: stubborn, tough, determined, cohesive, relentless
Ant.: weak yielding, irresolute, surrendering, unreliable

Question 5

Indoctrination

Answer 5

(n.) instruction in a body of doctrine; teaching to accept a system of thought uncritically
Syn.: persuasion, brainwashing, instruction, training, influencing
Ant.: dissuade, hinder, discourage

Question 6

Wan

Answer 6

(adj.) pale, gloomy
Syn.: white, ghastly, discolored, pallid, sickly
Ant.: bright, healthy, strong, colorful, blushing

Question 7

Errant

Answer 7

(adj.) traveling especially in search of adventure; straying from the standard or ordinary
Syn.: aberrant, erratic, offending, stray, wayward
Ant.: normal, correct, righteous

Question 8

Conundrum

Answer 8

(n.) a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun; a problem with no satisfactory solution
Syn.: enigma, mystery, puzzlement, mystification, poser
Ant.: clear, known, solution, certainty

Question 9

Bigoted

Answer 9

(adj.) one fanatically devoted to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and intolerant of those who differ
Syn.: biased, partial, unfair, warped, opinionated
Ant.: fair, just, tolerant, open-minded, unprejudiced

Question 10

Asphyxiated

Answer 10

(v.) suffocate
Syn.: choke, drown, strangle, stifle, smother
Ant.: breathe, loosen, inhale