F451 Vocab 2

Question 1

beatific

Answer 1

having a blissful appearance

Question 2

cadenced

Answer 2

the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity

Question 3

contemptible

Answer 3

worthy of contempt

Question 4

grotesque

Answer 4

a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature

Question 5

incomprehensible

Answer 5

impossible to comprehend; unintelligible

Question 6

insidious

Answer 6

having a gradual and cumulative effect

Question 7

intuitively

Answer 7

possessing or given to intuition or insight

Question 8

manifested

Answer 8

readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight

Question 9

limned

Answer 9

to draw or paint on a surface

Question 10

liquefaction

Answer 10

the process of making or becoming liquid

Question 11

perfunctorily

Answer 11

characterized by routine or superficiality

Question 12

phantom

Answer 12

something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence

Question 13

phosphorescent

Answer 13

glows in the dark with a soft light, but gives out little or no heat; luminescent

Question 14

quarry

Answer 14

a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted

Question 15

quavered

Answer 15

to tremble or waver

Question 16

sub-audible

Answer 16

too quiet or obscured to be heard clearly

Question 17

suffused

Answer 17

to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light

Question 18

rebut

Answer 18

to expose the falsity of; to contradict

Question 19

romantic

Answer 19

marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is idealized

Question 20

welter

Answer 20

to rise and fall or toss about in or with waves

Question 21

parried

Answer 21

to ward off a weapon or blow