Great Expectation Vocab. (part 2)

Question 0

Cupidity

Answer 0

Eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something

Question 1

Discomfiture

Answer 1

Confusion; embarrassment

Question 2

Dolefully

Answer 2

Sorrowful; mournful; melancholy

Question 3

Amphibious

Answer 3

Living or able to live both on land and in water

Question 4

Dexterously

Answer 4

Skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body

Question 5

Incongruity

Answer 5

The state of being out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming

Question 6

Provincial

Answer 6

Belonging or peculiar to some particular province

Question 7

Subsided

Answer 7

To sink or fall to the bottom; settle; precipitate

Question 8

Lethargic

Answer 8

Drowsy; sluggish

Question 9

Disparity

Answer 9

Lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference

Question 10

Enlightenment

Answer 10

The act of imparting knowledge

Question 11

Chronic

Answer 11

Constant; habitual; inveterate

Question 12

Thwarted

Answer 12

To oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose

Question 13

Adjuncts

Answer 13

Something added to another thing but not essential to it

Question 14

Despondent

Answer 14

Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, or gloom

Question 15

Temperate

Answer 15

Moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion

Question 16

Pacific

Answer 16

Calm; tranquil

Question 17

Sundry

Answer 17

Various or diverse

Question 18

Perversion

Answer 18

To lead astray morally

Question 19

Abhorrence

Answer 19

A feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination

Question 20

Dubiously

Answer 20

Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt

Question 21

Expatriated

Answer 21

To banish (a person) from his or her native country

Question 22

Perplexed

Answer 22

Complicated; involved; entangled

Question 23

Extricate

Answer 23

To free or release from entanglement; disengage

Question 24

Feign

Answer 24

To invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse

Question 25

Delusion

Answer 25

An instance of misleading the mind or judgement of

Question 26

Incredulous

Answer 26

Indicating or showing unbelief

Question 27

Truculent

Answer 27

Fierce, cruel; savagely brutal

Question 28

Averse

Answer 28

Having a strong welling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.,

Question 29

Inexplicable

Answer 29

Incapable of being accounted for or explained

Question 30

Tremulous

Answer 30

Timid; timorous; fearful

Question 31

Disquiet

Answer 31

Lack of calm, peace, or ease, anxiety, uneasiness

Question 32

Vivacity

Answer 32

Liveliness; animation; sprightliness

Question 33

Obdurate

Answer 33

Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings, stubborn; unyielding

Question 34

Irresolute

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Not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating

Question 35

Tumult

Answer 35

A general outbreak, riot, uprising, or other disorder

Question 36

Querulous

Answer 36

Full of complaints; complaining

Question 37

Indelible

Answer 37

Making marks the cannot be erased, removed

Question 38

Difference

Answer 38

Lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy

Question 39

Avarice

Answer 39

Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate; miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

Question 40

Assiduity

Answer 40

Constant or close application or effort; delligence; industry

Question 41

Relinquished

Answer 41

To give up; put aside or desist from

Question 42

Interposed

Answer 42

To put in (a remark, question, etc.) in the midst of a conversation