MC Vocab 4

Question 1

affected (adj):

Answer 1

acted upon, influenced; impaired, harmed, attacked

Question 2

ghoul (n):

Answer 2

demon; grave digger; someone who revels in the revolting

Question 3

candor (n):

Answer 3

frank, open, sincere; impartiality

Question 4

Eccentricity (n):

Answer 4

an oddity, peculiarity; the distance between two cylinders that are touching each other; the ratio from the distance between a point on a conic to the focus

Question 5

beguile (v):

Answer 5

to charm; to influence with flattery; to pass time pleasantly

Question 6

amenities (n):

Answer 6

agreeable manner; a feature that provides comfort or convenience

Question 7

inanities (inane, adj.) (n):

Answer 7

lacking sense or significance; silly; empty, void

Question 8

intimation (n):

Answer 8

a counterfeit, copy; art, the representation of something as it should be, actuality; music, repetition of a phrase in a different pitch or key

Question 9

specious (adj):

Answer 9

superficially pleasing; pleasing to the eye, but deceptive; fair

Question 10

disparity (n):

Answer 10

inequality; difference

Question 11

candid (adj):

Answer 11

frank, sincere, straightforward; informal; honest, impartial

Question 12

pretentious (adj):

Answer 12

assumption of dignity or importance, especially when it is undeserved; exaggerated outward show, ostentatious

Question 13

glib (adj):

Answer 13

readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unconstrained; agile, spry

Question 14

barb (n):

Answer 14

a curved point (fishing hook); obviously unpleasant remark; a breed of pigeon; small fish; small bulge under the tongues of horses and cattle, usually inflamed

Question 15

trepidation (n):

Answer 15

tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; tremor

Question 16

disparagement (disparage, v) (n):

Answer 16

something that casts in a bad light,

Question 17

inure (v):

Answer 17

to accustom to hardship, toughen, harden; to take or have effect; to become beneficial

Question 18

callousness (n):

Answer 18

hardness; insensitivity, indifferent, unsympathetic

Question 19

meticulous (adj):

Answer 19

extreme care in minute details, precise; finicky, fussy

Question 20

antithetical (adj):

Answer 20

directly opposed, contrasted

Question 21

inspirit (v):

Answer 21

to infuse spirit into, enliven

Question 22

discretion (n):

Answer 22

the power/right to act/decide on ones own judgment; discreet

Question 23

peripatetic (adj):

Answer 23

walking, traveling; relating to Aristotle

Question 24

vacillation (n):

Answer 24

moving back and forth; state of indecision or indecisiveness; unsteady movement, fluctuation

Question 25

nomadic (adj):

Answer 25

relating to the characteristics of nomads (moving around, etc.)

Question 26

factotum (n):

Answer 26

someone employed to do all kinds of work around a house; an employee or official with many responsibilities

Question 27

mercenary (n, adj):

Answer 27

working solely for money; hired to serve in a foreign army; hireling

Question 28

entrepreneur (n):

Answer 28

someone who organizes and manages an enterprise; contractor

Question 29

gigolo (n):

Answer 29

man who lives off the gifts of women usually in exchange for sexual attentions and companionship; male professional dancing partner or escort

Question 30

wastrel (n):

Answer 30

wasteful person; waste; abandoned child

Question 31

incarceration (n):

Answer 31

the act of putting someone in prison or other enclosure

Question 32

compunction (n):

Answer 32

remorse; hesitation about the rightness of an action

Question 33

penury (n):

Answer 33

destitution; insufficient

Question 34

ireful (ire, n) (adj):

Answer 34

wrathful; easily roused to anger

Question 35

aesthetic (n):

Answer 35

concerned with notions like beauty and ugly; love of beauty; concerning pure emotion and sensation

Question 36

ephemeral (adj):

Answer 36

lasting a very short time

Question 37

local color (n):

Answer 37

distinctive characteristics of a time or place represented in literature, drama, or in reality; the natural color of an object in normal light

Question 38

ignobility (n) (ignoble, adj):

Answer 38

low character; inferior; humble descent or rank

Question 39

incontrovertibly (adv):

Answer 39

not open for dispute

Question 40

refute (v):

Answer 40

to prove to be false

Question 41

mandate (n):

Answer 41

command or authorization to act a certain way;

Question 42

augment (v):

Answer 42

increase; music, to raise by half a step

Question 43

mottled (adj):

Answer 43

spotted or blotched in coloring

Question 44

stoic (adj):

Answer 44

relating to the school of thought founded by Zeno, free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, submit without complaint

Question 45

resignation (n):

Answer 45

formal document stating that someone is giving up their job or position; submission

Question 46

empathy (n):

Answer 46

vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, and attributes of others

Question 47

pragmatism (n):

Answer 47

character or action that emphasizes practicality; philosophical movement mainly stressing practical consequences

Question 48

transcendental (adj):

Answer 48

surpassing, superior; supernatural; abstract or metaphysical; idealistic, extravagant

Question 49

epiphany (n):

Answer 49

an appearance or manifestation; sudden, intuitive insight

Question 50

venerable (adj):

Answer 50

commanding respect due to age or dignity; a title in the Roman Catholic Church; (places) hallowed religiously or historically; ancient

Question 51

barnacles (n):

Answer 51

marine crustacean; a person or thing that clings tenaciously

Question 52

sullen (adj):

Answer 52

showing ill humor through silence; gloomy, dismal;

Question 53

bilge (n):

Answer 53

nautical: rounded area between the bottom and side of the exterior of the hull; a well into which seapage drains; to turn yellow
to bulge or swell out