List 3 vocab

Question 1

Abrogate

Answer 1

verb; To abolish, usually by authority (“a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike”)

Question 2

Blandish

Answer 2

verb; To coax by using flattery(“I was blandishing her with imprudences to get her off the subject”)

Question 3

Concomitant

Answer 3

Adjective; Accompanying in a subordinate fashion(“she loved travel, with all its concomitant worries” · “concomitant with his obsession with dirt was a desire for order”)

Question 4

Deride

Answer 4

verb; To laugh at mockingly, scorn(“critics derided the proposals as clumsy attempts to find a solution”)

Question 5

Eschew

Answer 5

verb; To shun, avoid(“he appealed to the crowd to eschew violence”)

Question 6

Fastidious

Answer 6

Adjective; meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards(“he chooses his words with fastidious care”)

Question 7

Harangue

Answer 7

1. Noun; A ranting speech 2. Verb; To give such a speech(“they were subjected to a ten-minute harangue by two border guards”)

Question 7

Indefatigable

Answer 7

Adjective; Incapable of defeat, failure, decay(“an indefatigable defender of human rights”)

Question 8

Laconic

Answer 8

Adjective; Terse in speech or writing(“his laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic”)

Question 9

mendacious

Answer 9

Adjective; Having a lying, false character(“mendacious propaganda”)