Fun Home: Vocab

Question 1

Cumbersome

Answer 1

describe an item that is large/heavy to carry or to be used. It can also describe a method/system that is too complex or slow to be used

Question 2

Legerdemain
Prestidigitacion

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skill use of hands

Question 3

Demur
Objetar

Answer 3

raise doubt or objections

Question 4

Simulacrum
Simulacro

Answer 4

an image or representation of someone/something

Question 5

Monomanical
Monomaniaca

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fanatical or obsessed with ones side to the point of exclusion of other concerns

Question 6

Infraction

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violation

Question 7

Epitaph
Epitafio

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a phrase or word written in memory of a person who died

Question 8

Anachronism
Anacronismo

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a thing belonging to a period outside of it’s era; old-fashioned

Question 9

Expatriate
Expatriada

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a person who lives outside their native country

Question 10

Alluring
Seductora

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powerfully and mysteriously

Question 11

Inextricability
Inextricabilidad

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not capable of being solved

Question 12

Solipsistic
Solipsista

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the quality of being self-centered or selfish

Question 13

Redolent

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strongly suggestive

Question 14

Perennial

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enduring or continually recurring

Question 15

Sinew
Tendon

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the parts of a structure, system, or thing that gives it strength or bind it together

Question 16

Lexicographical
Lexicografica

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relates to writing and editing dictionaries

Question 17

Aurede

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a circle of light or brightness around something

Question 18

Milieu

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a person’s social environment

Question 19

Succor
Socorro

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assistance and support in hard times

Question 20

Ardently
Ardientemente

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very enthusiastically or passionately

Question 21

Proliferate
Predileccion

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a preference or special liking for something

Question 22

Surreptitiously
Subrepticiamente

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in a way that attempts to avoid attention