High Freq Words - VII

Question 1

volatile

Answer 1

liable to lead to sudden change or violence

Question 2

probity

Answer 2

complete and confirmed integrity
the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
“financial probity”

Question 3

recondite

Answer 3

(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.
difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
“the book is full of recondite information”

Question 4

secrete

Answer 4

generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

Question 5

supposition

Answer 5

the cognitive process of conjecturing
an uncertain belief.
“they were working on the supposition that his death was murder”

Question 6

unwarranted

Answer 6

incapable of being justified or explained

Question 7

problematic

Answer 7

making great mental demands

Question 8

refractory

Answer 8

stubbornly resistant to authority or control

“his refractory pony”

Question 9

shard

Answer 9

a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Question 10

tacit

Answer 10

understood or implied without being stated.
“your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement”
implied by or inferred from actions or statements

Question 11

wary

Answer 11

marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

Question 12

prodigal

Answer 12

recklessly wasteful

Question 13

refute

Answer 13

overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

Question 14

skeptic

Answer 14

someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

Question 15

tangential

Answer 15

Referring to or along a tangent.
Diverting from a previous course or line. Erratic

of superficial relevance if any

Question 16

welter

Answer 16

A large number of items in no order. A confused mass.
“There’s such a welter of conflicting rules”

Move in a turbulent fashion.

a confused multitude of things

Question 17

profound

Answer 17

situated at or extending to great depth

Question 18

relegate

Answer 18

assign to a lower position

Question 19

solicitous

Answer 19

Characterized by showing interest and concern

“She was always solicitous about the welfare of her students

Question 20

tenuous

Answer 20

Very weak or slight.
“The tenuous link between interest rates and investment”

very thin in gauge or diameter

Question 21

whimsical

Answer 21

determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

Question 22

prohibitive

Answer 22

tending to discourage, especially of prices

Question 23

reproach

Answer 23

express criticism towards
address (someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment.
“critics of the administration reproached the president for his failure to tackle the deficiency”

Question 24

soporific

Answer 24

inducing sleep
tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.
“the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect”

Question 25

tirade

Answer 25

a speech of violent denunciation

a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.
“a tirade of abuse”

Question 26

zealot

Answer 26

a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

a fervent and even militant proponent of something

Question 27

proliferate

Answer 27

increase rapidly in numbers; multiply.
“the science fiction magazines that proliferated in the 1920s”

grow rapidly

Question 28

reprobate

Answer 28

a person without moral scruples

an unprincipled person (often used humorously or affectionately).

Question 29

specious

Answer 29

superficially plausible, but actually wrong.
“a specious argument”

plausible but false

Question 30

torpor

Answer 30

a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy.
“they veered between apathetic torpor and hysterical fanaticism”

a state of motor and mental inactivity

Question 31

propensity

Answer 31

an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.
“a propensity for violence”

a natural inclination

Question 32

repudiate

Answer 32

refuse to accept or be associated with.
“she has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders”

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

Question 33

spectrum

Answer 33

a broad range of related objects or values or qualities

Question 34

tortuous

Answer 34

full of twists and turns.
“the route is remote and tortuous”

marked by repeated turns and bends