Lesson 3

Question 1

Friendly, courteous, amiable

Answer 1

Affable

Question 2

Excessive boldness, rashness, daring

Answer 2

Audacity

Question 3

Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

Answer 3

Contrite

Question 4

Believing on slight evidence, gullible

Answer 4

Credulous

Question 5

Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

Answer 5

Depravity

Question 6

To disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

Answer 6

Deprecate

Question 7

Instructive, designed to teach

Answer 7

Didactic

Question 8

Inactive, sleeping

Answer 8

Dormant

Question 9

Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

Answer 9

Enigmatic

Question 10

Scholarly

Answer 10

Erudite

Question 11

Foreign, unfamiliar

Answer 11

Exotic

Question 12

To mix or join (usually by melting)

Answer 12

Fuse

Question 13

Unchanging

Answer 13

Immutable

Question 14

Incapable of being reformed or improved

Answer 14

Incorrigible

Question 15

To detest

Answer 15

Loathe

Question 16

To cause not to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe

Answer 16

Mitigate

Question 17

To cause not to be in effect, to negate

Answer 17

Nullify

Question 18

Opposed to a war or use of force

Answer 18

Pacifistic

Question 19

Making an extravagant outward show, self-important

Answer 19

Pretentious

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Prologue

Question 21

To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke

Answer 21

Recant

Question 22

Overly submissive

Answer 22

Servile

Question 23

Fear, trembling, agitation

Answer 23

Trepidation

Question 24

To malign p, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

Answer 24

Vilify

Question 25

Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed

Answer 25

Abstruse