Lesson 10

Question 1

torpid

Answer 1

adj.
slow
Old people are torpid, they do thing slowly.

Question 2

puerile

Answer 2

adj.
ack of maturity
He is a puerile person, he always does child’s things.

Question 3

variegated

Answer 3

adj.
having a variety of colors
Rainbow is variegated.

Question 4

vex

Answer 4

v.
cause annoyance in
Homeworks let students vex.

Question 5

effulgent

Answer 5

adj.
radient
Diamonds are effulgent.

Question 6

desiccated

Answer 6

adj.
dry
Hydropenic country’s ground is desiccated.

Question 7

deride

Answer 7

v.
ridicule
He always deride other people, he aways laugh other people’s defect.

Question 8

fallacious

Answer 8

adj.
deceitful
He said his homeworks were eaten by his dog, so he doesn’t do his homworks, this reason is fallacious.

Question 9

fatuous

Answer 9

adj.
devoid of intelligence
He always do stupid things, he is a fatuous person.

Question 10

iconoclast

Answer 10

n.
a destroyer of traditional institutions
The bad students is iconoclast, they destroy school rules.

Question 11

ingenuous

Answer 11

adj.
artless
She is ingenuous, she never tell lies, so people all like her.

Question 12

languid

Answer 12

adj.
weak
Patients in the hospital are languid.

Question 13

anathema

Answer 13

n.
curse
His anathema to his classmate work it out, his classmate have a bad luck today.

Question 14

dither

Answer 14

v.
be undecided
The pen shop have many kind of pen, she all like, so she dither to buy which pen.

Question 15

querulous

Answer 15

adj.
whiny
Small things can make him angry, he is a querulous person.

Question 16

proscribe

Answer 16

v.
forbid
Teachers proscribe students to copy other’s work, because it can’t help you study.

Question 17

taciturn

Answer 17

adj.
uncommunicative
He is a taciturn person, he talk very few.

Question 18

recalcitrant

Answer 18

adj.
resistant
He is a recalcitrant person, he never listen to other people’s advises and never amend his defect.

Question 19

transient

Answer 19

adj.
very short time
Our life is transient, so we need to cherish every day.

Question 20

turgid

Answer 20

adj.
tumid
He is a turgid person, he always tell people he is a rich person.