Final Vocab

Question 1

Having to do with beauty or order

Answer 1

Aesthetic

Question 2

Hostility or hatred

Answer 2

Antipathy

Question 3

Not interested; having no strong emotion towards.

Answer 3

Apathetic

Question 4

Having no interest in politics; not political

Answer 4

Apolitical

Question 5

Intended to serve as a warning

Answer 5

Cautionary

Question 6

To avoid by going around; bypass.

Answer 6

Circumvent

Question 7

Having to do with the business of a town or community.

Answer 7

Civic

Question 8

Of or related to informal speech; conversational.

Answer 8

Colloquial

Question 9

A coming together.

Answer 9

Congress

Question 10

An image or idea associated with a word.

Answer 10

Connotation

Question 11

Diligent and careful

Answer 11

Conscientious

Question 12

Exhibiting harsh sharpness in speech or mood

Answer 12

Acrimonious

Question 13

Wordy or sophisticated

Answer 13

Cosmopolitan

Question 14

To lower in dignity or esteem, insult

Answer 14

Degrade

Question 15

Having certain characteristics in common, such as age, race, or gender.

Answer 15

Demographic

Question 16

The dictionary definition of a word.

Answer 16

Denotation

Question 17

(1) To speak aloud in order that one’s words may be copied or recorded
(2) To give an order; to make necessary

Answer 17

Dictate

Question 18

Highly spirited; Animated

Answer 18

Effervescent

Question 19

Powerful and expressive

Answer 19

Eloquent

Question 20

Calling forth a vivid image or impression.

Answer 20

Evocative

Question 21

Passionately excited or enthusiastic.

Answer 21

Fervent

Question 22

Drink; Soak up

Answer 22

Imbibe

Question 23

A curse

Answer 23

Imprecation

Question 24

An attack on another’s territory; a raid.

Answer 24

Incursion

Question 25

Lazy; adverse to work

Answer 25

Indolent

Question 26

Curious; asking many questions

Answer 26

Inquisitive

Question 27

Dull; uninteresting.

Answer 27

Insipid

Question 28

Not based on reason or logic

Answer 28

Irrational

Question 29

Style or action of speaking.

Answer 29

Locution

Question 30

A recital of words intended to harm; a curse.

Answer 30

Malediction

Question 31

Having an effect on a large area or region.

Answer 31

Pandemic

Question 32

Habit or type.

Answer 32

Persuasion

Question 33

Threatened or unsafe.

Answer 33

Precarious

Question 34

That which comes before; forerunner.

Answer 34

Precursor

Question 35

To rot; to decompose.

Answer 35

Putrefy

Question 36

To bring back into agreement.

Answer 36

Reconcile

Question 37

Help for a problem; a solution.

Answer 37

Recourse

Question 38

Act of ordering or demanding something.

Answer 38

Requisition

Question 39

Not obeying moral laws; unscrupulous.

Answer 39

Unconscionable

Question 40

Masculine; manly.

Answer 40

Virile

Question 41

Right action, moral goodness.

Answer 41

Virtue

Question 42

Someone extraordinarily skilled in a particular art.

Answer 42

Virtuoso