Lesson 7 (:3)

Question 1

acerbic

Answer 1

harsh or corrosive in tone

The letter was written in her acerbic style.

Question 2

alacrity

Answer 2

If you do something with alacrity, you do it quickly and eagerly.

They fell on the blood with alacrity

Question 3

precocious

Answer 3

A precocious child is very clever, mature, or good at something, often in a way that you usually only expect to find in an adult.

From childhood, he was evidently at once precocious.

Question 4

cogent

Answer 4

convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.

To make the story looks cogent the author had provided many scientific evidence.

Question 5

ascetic

Answer 5

pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline

The monks of Buddhism lived a very ascetic life.

Question 6

diffident

Answer 6

lacking self-confidence

Helen was diffident and reserved to warding public.

Question 7

enervate

Answer 7

weaken mentally or morally

The diseases enervate his health quality.

Question 8

evanescent

Answer 8

disappear gradually

Inscets usually lived an evanescent life.

Question 9

hackneyed

Answer 9

If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.

This article is rather too hackneyed

Question 10

implacable

Answer 10

impossible to placate

I had an implacable anger toward untrue kindness.

Question 11

inveterate

Answer 11

If you describe someone as, for example, an inveterate liar or smoker, you mean that they have lied or smoked for a long time and are not likely to stop doing it.

An inveterate person could be addicted to weird stuff.

Question 12

vilify

Answer 12

spread negative information about

We vilify inorder to break others reputaton.

Question 13

vacillate

Answer 13

f you vacillate between two alternatives or choices, you keep changing your mind

We cannot vacillate on the question of the party’s leadership no matter what.

Question 14

umbrage

Answer 14

If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.

I invited her to the party because I was afraid of giving umbrage.

Question 15

somnolent

Answer 15

inclined to or marked by drowsinessGets sleepy at a somnolent Sunday afternoon is common.

Question 16

rescind

Answer 16

annul by recalling or rescinding

Darlan then tried to rescind the order but he didn’t.

Question 17

punctilious

Answer 17

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

You think Asians are punctilious, but it was not like that all the time .

Question 18

promulgate

Answer 18

f people promulgate a new law or a new idea, they make it widely known.

The king promulgate a decree this morning.

Question 19

largess

Answer 19

a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously

They say they don’t want to accept largess form the richer nation.

Question 20

mendacious

Answer 20

A mendacious person is someone who tells lies. A mendacious statement is one that is a lie.

In general the tort is the behavior that the CPA provides mendacious audIt’statement.