Final Vocab and Rhetoric

Question 1

Terse

Answer 1

Not wordy

Question 2

Adulation

Answer 2

Slavish admiration

Question 3

Culpable

Answer 3

To be at fault

Question 4

Munificent

Answer 4

Very Civicly generous

Question 5

Transient

Answer 5

To come in and out, temporary

Question 6

Entreat

Answer 6

To beg or to plead

Question 7

Chimera

Answer 7

Something made up in your head

Question 8

Recluse

Answer 8

Removed from society

Question 9

Decadent

Answer 9

Excessively indulgent

Question 10

Stupefy

Answer 10

To make stupid or unclear

Question 11

Vicarious

Answer 11

Experienced through someone else

Question 12

Discursive

Answer 12

Go from subject to subject

Question 13

Estrange

Answer 13

To be no longer close or affectionate

Question 14

Exonerate

Answer 14

To prove innocence

Question 15

Gratuitous

Answer 15

Lacking good reason

Question 16

Indignation

Answer 16

Anger provoked by unfair treatment

Question 17

Induce

Answer 17

To cause

Question 18

Intractable

Answer 18

Hard to control

Question 19

Lucid

Answer 19

Expressed clearly

Question 20

Misanthrope

Answer 20

A person devoid of human society

Question 21

Inane

Answer 21

Silly, stupid

Question 22

Indolence

Answer 22

Laziness

Question 23

Infallible

Answer 23

Incapable of being wrong

Question 24

Inscrutable

Answer 24

Impossible to understand or interpret

Question 25

Languid

Answer 25

Relaxed

Question 26

Penitent

Answer 26

Feeling or showing sorrow

Question 27

Perfunctory

Answer 27

Carried out with a minimum amount of effort

Question 28

Antiquated

Answer 28

Old fashioned or outdated

Question 29

Dilapidated

Answer 29

In a state of disrepair

Question 30

Atrophy

Answer 30

Wasting away

Question 31

Clandestine

Answer 31

Secret

Question 32

Conciliate

Answer 32

Pacify

Question 33

Cursory

Answer 33

Hasty

Question 34

Derision

Answer 34

Contemptuous ridicule

Question 35

Enmity

Answer 35

State of being actively opposed

Question 36

Extricate

Answer 36

To become free or remove constraints

Question 37

Forbearence

Answer 37

Patient self control

Question 38

Frivolous

Answer 38

Not having value,

Question 39

Garrulous

Answer 39

Excessively talkative

Question 40

Impetuous

Answer 40

Acting or done hastily

Question 41

Industrious

Answer 41

Hard working

Question 42

Infamous

Answer 42

Well known for something bad

Question 43

Insolent

Answer 43

Lack of respect

Question 44

Levity

Answer 44

Humor or frivolity

Question 45

Oblivion

Answer 45

State of being unaware, unconsciousness

Question 46

Paradoxical

Answer 46

Self contradictory

Question 47

Perjury

Answer 47

Lying under oath

Question 48

Rancor

Answer 48

Bitterness or resentfullness

Question 49

Sycophant

Answer 49

Obsequies liking

Question 50

Vacillate

Answer 50

To go back and forth

Question 51

Vividly

Answer 51

To animate

Question 52

Accolade

Answer 52

An award

Question 53

Ascetic

Answer 53

Severe self discipline

Question 54

Bequeath

Answer 54

To leave into a hill

Question 55

Charlatan

Answer 55

A fraud

Question 56

Conflagration

Answer 56

An extensive and large fire

Question 57

Dearth

Answer 57

Lack of something

Question 58

Diffidence

Answer 58

Shyness from a lack of self confidence

Question 59

Effervesce

Answer 59

To bubble up

Question 60

Effulgence

Answer 60

Radiant

Question 61

Ethereal

Answer 61

Extremely delicate and light, not of this world

Question 62

Guile

Answer 62

Sly or cunning

Question 63

Implausible

Answer 63

Improbable

Question 64

Incongruous

Answer 64

Not in harmony

Question 65

Insular

Answer 65

Ignorant of others ideas

Question 66

Provincial

Answer 66

Of a certain province or country

Question 67

Synthesis

Answer 67

The combination of ideas to form a theory

Question 68

Vigilant

Answer 68

Keeping careful watch

Question 69

Voluble

Answer 69

Very wordy

Question 70

Affinity

Answer 70

Natural liking

Question 71

Metonia

Answer 71

Correcting ones self

Question 72

Litotes

Answer 72

Avoids claim, denies opposite

Question 73

Erotema

Answer 73

Question that does not call for an answer

Question 74

Hypophra

Answer 74

Opens with broad sentence, answers through paragraph

Question 75

Metabasis

Answer 75

Concise summary

Question 76

Procatalepsis

Answer 76

Anticipates objection, responds to it.

Question 77

Anastrophe

Answer 77

When words appear on unexpected order

Question 78

Ellipsis

Answer 78

Omission of expected words

Question 79

Syllepsis

Answer 79

Terms linked by different meanings of the verb

Question 80

Antithemera

Answer 80

Using one part of a speech as another

Question 81

Laconic

Answer 81

Using very few words

Question 82

Magnanimity

Answer 82

Generous

Question 83

Scrupulous

Answer 83

Diligent

Question 84

Sublime

Answer 84

Very good excellence

Question 85

Surreptitious

Answer 85

Kept secret

Question 86

Spurious

Answer 86

False

Question 87

Amiable

Answer 87

Having or displaying a friendly manner

Question 88

Anadiplosis

Answer 88

Repetition at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next

Question 89

Apostrophe

Answer 89

Addressing something that isn’t there

Question 90

Metonym

Answer 90

A part to represent a whole