Mid Term Vocab

Question 1

Despondent

Answer 1

Feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression

Question 2

Excruciating

Answer 2

1 causing great pain or anguish; agonizing

2 very intense; extreme

Question 3

Succumb

Answer 3

1 to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire

2 to be brought to an end by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces (such as death)

Question 4

Corroborate

Answer 4

To support with evidence or authority; make more certain

Question 5

Recluse

Answer 5

Marked by withdrawal from society; solitary

Question 6

Spontaneous

Answer 6

1 proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint

2 arising from a momentary impulse

3 control and directed internally; self-acting

4 produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenous

5 developing or occurring without a parent external influence, forest, cause, or treatment

6 not apparently contrived or manipulated; natural

Question 7

Irascible

Answer 7

Marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger

Question 8

Pseudonym

Answer 8

A fictitious name

Question 9

Disposition

Answer 9

1 a temperamental makeup; the tendency of something to act in a certain manner

2 The act or power of disposing or the state of being disposed; final settlement

Question 10

Endeavor

Answer 10

To attempt by exertion of effort; to strive to achieve

Question 11

Fledgling

Answer 11

1 an immature or inexperienced person; new

Question 12

Inaugurate

Answer 12

1 to induct into an office with a ceremony

2 to dedicate ceremoniously or to bring about the beginning of

Question 13

Anarchy

Answer 13

The absence of government or established order

Question 14

Lionize

Answer 14

To treat as an object of great interest or importance

Question 15

Guile

Answer 15

Deceitful in a tricky way

Question 16

Profound

Answer 16

1 having intellectual depth and insight

2 extending far below the surface

3 characterized by intensity of feeling or quality

Question 17

Simulate

Answer 17

To imitate

Question 18

Anonymous

Answer 18

Not named or identified

Question 19

Lackadaisical

Answer 19

Lacking life, spirit, or zest

Question 20

Assimilate

Answer 20

To make similar into the cultural tradition of a population or group

Question 21

Tirade

Answer 21

A protracted speech usually marked by harsh language

Question 22

Slovenly

Answer 22

Untidy especially in personal appearance or messy

Question 23

Contingent

Answer 23

Dependent on something else happening

Question 24

Replica

Answer 24

An exact reproduction

Question 25

Depict

Answer 25

To represent by or explain as if a picture