F451 Vocab 10/16/14

Question 1

blissfully happy

Answer 1

beatific

Question 2

having or marked by a rhythmical flow of sounds or words

Answer 2

cadenced

Question 3

deserving the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, contempt, despicable

Answer 3

contemptible

Question 4

comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

a very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image

Answer 4

grotesque

Question 5

not able to be understood; not intelligible

Answer 5

incomprehensible

Question 6

proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects
treacherous; crafty

Answer 6

insidious

Question 7

percieving by direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehensio, as a person or the mind

Answer 7

intuitively

Question 8

to display or show (a quality or feeling) by one’s acts or appearance; demonstrate
be evidence of; prove
(of an ailment) become apparent through the appearance of symptoms

Answer 8

manifested

Question 9

depict or describe in painting or words

suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light

Answer 9

limned

Question 10

the process of making or becoming liquid

Answer 10

liquefaction

Question 11

to ward off (a weapon or attack) especially with a counter move

Answer 11

parried

Question 12

lacking in interest or enthusiasm

(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

Answer 12

perfunctorily

Question 13

a ghost
a figment of the imagination
denoting a financial arrangement or transaction that has been invented for fraudulent purposes but that does not really exist

Answer 13

phantom

Question 14

emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorus

Answer 14

phosphorescent

Question 15

a place typically a large deep pit from which stone has been extracted, an animal pursued by a hunter, a diamond shaped pane

Answer 15

quarry

Question 16

shake or tremble in speaking typically through nervousness or emotion

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quavered

Question 17

capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard

Answer 17

sub audible

Question 18

gradually spread through or over

Answer 18

suffused

Question 19

claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false drive back or repel (a person or attack)

Answer 19

rebel

Question 20

conductive to or characterized by the expression of love of characterized by or suggestive of an idealized view of reality

Answer 20

romantic

Question 21

move in a turbulent fashion (spasm)

a large number of items in no order; a confused mass

Answer 21

welter