Gulliver's Travel vocabulary

Question 1

importune

Answer 1

verb beg persistently and urgently

Question 2

proficiency

Answer 2

noun the quality of having great facility and competence; skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

Question 3

prolific

Answer 3

adj. bearing in abundance especially offspring; intellectually productive

Question 4

collateral

Answer 4

adj. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; situated or running side by side; accompany, concomitant; serving to support or corroborate; noun a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

Question 5

scrupulous

Answer 5

adj. having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; characterized by extreme care and great effort

Question 6

despond

Answer 6

verb lose confidence or hope; become dejected

Question 7

parsimony

Answer 7

noun extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily; extreme stinginess

Question 8

propaganda

Answer 8

noun information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause

Question 9

effectual

Answer 9

adj. producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; having legal efficacy or force

Question 10

inclemency

Answer 10

noun excessive sternness; weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

Question 11

conceive

Answer 11

verb become pregnant; undergo conception; judge or regard; look upon; judge; have the idea for

Question 12

disposition

Answer 12

noun your usual mood; a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; the act or means of getting rid of something; an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

Question 13

apprehensive

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adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; quick to understand

Question 14

venture

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noun any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome; a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit; an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; verb proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; put at risk; put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

Question 15

divert

Answer 15

verb send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one; withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions; turn aside; turn away from; occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion

Question 16

asunder

Answer 16

adj. widely separated especially in space; adv. into parts or pieces

Question 17

conjecture

Answer 17

noun reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Question 18

infallible

Answer 18

adj. incapable of failure or error

Question 19

courser

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noun swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles; a dog trained for coursing; a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey; formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle

Question 20

dexterity

Answer 20

noun adroitness in using the hands