Lesson 20

Question 1

Alacrity

Answer 1

Promptness in response; cheerful readiness

Question 2

Apathetic

Answer 2

Having or showing little or no feeling, interest or concern

Question 3

Autocrat

Answer 3

A person who rules with unlimted authority; tyrant

Question 4

Boorish

Answer 4

rude and unmannerly; insensitive to other’s feelings

Question 5

Charlatan

Answer 5

A person falsely claiming special knowledge or skill

Question 6

Consternation

Answer 6

Amazement or dismay that leads to confusion

Question 7

Debache

Answer 7

A violent disruption; great disaster; complete failure

Question 8

dissolution

Answer 8

the act or process of dissolving; decay or disintegration

Question 9

emulate

Answer 9

to strive to equal or excel

Question 10

excoriating

Answer 10

stripping or peeling off the skin; censuring severely

Question 11

fickle

Answer 11

inconstant or changeable, especially in loyalty

Question 12

Gregarious

Answer 12

Fond of company; living in flocks or communities

Question 13

Impassive

Answer 13

Giving no sign of feeling or emotion; susceptible to pain or emotion

Question 14

Intransigent

Answer 14

Unwilling to abandon an extreme position or attitude; uncompromising

Question 14

indignat

Answer 14

Filled with or marked by anger at something unjust to pain or emotion

Question 15

Licentious

Answer 15

Lacking legal or moral restraints, especially sexual restraints

Question 16

Myriad

Answer 16

Ten thousand; a great number

Question 17

Obsolete

Answer 17

No longer useful or in use; discarded or antiquated

Question 18

Parsimonious

Answer 18

frugal to the point of stinginess

Question 19

Placate

Answer 19

To soothe, especially by concessions; appease or pacify

Question 20

Primordial

Answer 20

Existing in or persisting from the beginning; original or fundamental

Question 21

Raucous

Answer 21

Disagreeably harsh or strident; disorderly

Question 22

Rescind

Answer 22

To take away, take back, or nullify; revoke or cancel

Question 23

Sardonic

Answer 23

Bitterly mocking or cynical

Question 24

Sporadic

Answer 24

Occurring only here and there or occasionally; infrequent

Question 25

Surfeit

Answer 25

An abundant supply; an immoderate indulgence in something; disgust caused by excess

Question 25

Trite

Answer 25

Not fresh or original; worn out by constant repetition; banal

Question 26

Versatile

Answer 26

Turning with ease from one thing to another; having many uses or applications

Question 27

Willful

Answer 27

Obstinately self-willed; headstrong or stubborn; deliberate or intentional