Lesson 16

Question 1

Aesthetic

Answer 1

Artistic; to do with beauty or the sense of beautiful; having a sense of beautiful

Question 2

Animosity

Answer 2

A feeling of resentment or ill will; hostility

Question 3

Auspicious

Answer 3

favorable; promising; promising success; with good omens

Question 4

Blasphemy

Answer 4

disrespect towards something sacred; speaking or acting against religion or deity

Question 5

censorious

Answer 5

overly critical and accusatory; faultfinding

Question 6

confound

Answer 6

to throw into confusion; to perplex; to mix up or mistake on thing for another

Question 7

curt

Answer 7

brief and rude in speech; abrupt

Question 8

despondent

Answer 8

feeling gloom and hopelessness

Question 9

disposition

Answer 9

one’s characteristic attitude, temperament, tendency or inclination

Question 10

emaciated

Answer 10

extremely thin; undernourished

Question 11

exacerbate

Answer 11

to aggravate or worsen

Question 12

fecund

Answer 12

extremely productive; fertile or fruitful

Question 13

grandiloquent

Answer 13

lofty and pompous in speech

Question 14

imminent

Answer 14

likely to occur soon; impending; hanging over (a person)

Question 15

Incontrovertible

Answer 15

Undeniable; indisputable

Question 16

insuperable

Answer 16

incapable of being overcome

Question 17

lavish

Answer 17

expended in great amounts; more than normal (a lavish gift).

Question 18

morbid

Answer 18

gloomy; unhealthy mental attitude

Question 19

obliterate

Answer 19

to destroy completely; wipe out

Question 20

Paragon

Answer 20

A model of excellence; an ideal example

Question 21

Phlegmatic

Answer 21

not easily excited; apathetic; slow to emotion; sluggish; calm

Question 22

pretentious

Answer 22

showing pretension; pretending to dignity or importance that is not there; pompous and self-important

Question 23

quarantine

Answer 23

isolation imposed to prevent spread of disease; a system of measures to isolate potential disease risk

Question 24

repress

Answer 24

TO keep down or under control (in a negative way); to suppress

Question 25

salutary

Answer 25

favorable to health; beneficial

Question 26

sonorous

Answer 26

with rich sound; resonant; deep in sound

Question 27

Supercilious

Answer 27

contemptuous; condescending; disdainful

Question 28

transient

Answer 28

fleeting; impermanent; lasting a short time; on the move

Question 29

venal

Answer 29

able to be bribed; willing to sell one’s influence

Question 30

wary

Answer 30

cautious and watchful