HoD Vocab List(#4)

Question 1

Estuary

Answer 1

The wide part of a river where it nears the sea

Question 2

Diaphanous

Answer 2

So thin as to transmit light

Question 3

Sedentary

Answer 3

Requiring sitting or little activity

Question 4

Propensity

Answer 4

A disposition to behave in a certain way

Question 5

Somnambulist

Answer 5

Someone who walks about in his/her sleep

Question 6

Erroneous

Answer 6

Containing or characterized by error

Question 7

Lugubrious

Answer 7

Excessively mournful

Question 8

Alacrity

Answer 8

Liveliness and eagerness

Question 9

Yokel

Answer 9

A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Question 10

Exuberant

Answer 10

Produced or growing in extreme abundance

Question 11

Pluck

Answer 11

The trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

Question 12

Sagacious

Answer 12

Acutely insightful and wise

Question 13

Edifying

Answer 13

Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

Question 14

Impromptu

Answer 14

With little or no preparation or forethought

Question 15

Farcical

Answer 15

Broadly or extravagantly humorous

Question 16

Perdition

Answer 16

The abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

Question 17

Stanchion

Answer 17

Any vertical post or rod used as a support

Question 18

Confounded

Answer 18

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment