Gr9 Lesson 3

Question 1

Pulchritude

Answer 1

N.
Physical beauty
Doing plastic surgery for your pulchritude is ridiculous to me

Question 2

Propitious

Answer 2

Adj
Presenting favorable conditions
The game is PROPITIOUS for me, only the tributes from district 12 are left.

Question 3

Portent

Answer 3

N
Omen of sth about to happen
There are many PORTENTS occurring before an earthquake.

Question 4

Perspicacity

Answer 4

N
Keenness of mental perception
Laurel is quiet, she observes people with her awesome PERSPICACITY.

Question 5

Parsimony

Answer 5

N
Excessive economy or stinginess
His money-saving and tightness made him became parsimony.

Question 6

Officious

Answer 6

Adj.
Aggressive in offering one’s unrequested services.
She became OFFICIOUS with her new badge on.

Question 7

Nefarious

Answer 7

Adj.
Extremely wicked or villainous.
He talked and treated his half brother in a NEFARIOUS manner.

Question 8

Intransigent

Answer 8

Adj
Refusing to agree
Catherine’s INTRANSIGENT father deny her marriage

Question 9

Hegemony

Answer 9

N
Leadership or predominant influence
The hegemony of the group had power to control others

Question 10

Effrontery

Answer 10

N
Shameless or impudent boldness
Born in a rich family, the girl had the effrontery to be sarcastic.

Question 11

Fractious

Answer 11

Adj
Easily to angered, irritable
Since the loose of the game, he became fractious these days

Question 12

Garrulous

Answer 12

Adj.
Talkative in a rambling manner especially about trivial speech
Her step-mother is a garrulous house wife

Question 13

Grandiloquence

Answer 13

N
Speech that is lofty in tone
His grandiloquence convinced many people to join him

Question 14

Extol

Answer 14

V
To praise highly
He extolled the invention of flying cars in front of the square

Question 15

Acumen

Answer 15

N
Keen insight
Her acumen had saved herself from another detention

Question 16

Adumbrate

Answer 16

v
To produce a faint image, to outline
He adumbrate the main plot of the Mystery story

Question 17

Buffet

Answer 17

V
To strike
The boxer buffet his opponent on the abdomen

Question 18

Buttress

Answer 18

N
A support built to steady a structure
Gothic cathedral have a new building elements called buttress

Question 19

Conflagration

Answer 19

N
Destructive fire
The conflagration Burns down half of London In a night

Question 20

Replete

Answer 20

Adj.
stuffed and supplied
The busy harbor is repleted with ships from other countries.