Lesson 3

Question 0

Affable

Answer 0

Friendly, courteous, amiable

Question 1

Abstruse

Answer 1

Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed

Question 2

Audacity

Answer 2

Excessive boldness, rashness, caring

Question 3

Contrite

Answer 3

Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

Question 4

Credulous

Answer 4

Believing on slight evidence, gullible

Question 5

Depravity

Answer 5

Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

Question 6

Deprecate

Answer 6

To disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

Question 7

Didactic

Answer 7

Instructive, designed to teach

Question 8

Dormant

Answer 8

Inactive, sleeping

Question 9

Enigmatic

Answer 9

Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

Question 10

Erudite

Answer 10

Scholarly

Question 11

Exotic

Answer 11

Foreign, unfamiliar

Question 12

Fuse

Answer 12

To mix or to join

Question 13

Immutable

Answer 13

Unchanging

Question 14

Incorrigible

Answer 14

Incapable of being reformed or improved

Question 15

Loathe

Answer 15

To detest

Question 16

Mitigate

Answer 16

To cause to become less harsh or hostile or to make less severe

Question 17

Nullify

Answer 17

To cause not to be in effect or to negate

Question 18

Pretentious

Answer 18

Making an extravagant outward show or self important

Question 19

Prologue

Answer 19

Introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action

Question 20

Recant

Answer 20

To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke

Question 21

Servile

Answer 21

Overly submissive

Question 22

Trepidation

Answer 22

Fear, trembling, agitation

Question 23

Vilify

Answer 23

To malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

Question 24

Pacifistic

Answer 24

Opposed to war or use of force