NSF nationals vocabulary W14

Question 1

interpolate

Answer 1

insert words into texts

Question 2

inure

Answer 2

to accustom to hardship, beneficial to;

Question 3

irascible

Answer 3

quickly aroused to anger

Question 4

irk

Answer 4

to irrate or vex

Question 5

ironclad

Answer 5

sheathed in iron plates, inflexible

Question 6

irrepressible

Answer 6

impossible to be restrained or controled

Question 7

isotropic

Answer 7

invariant with respect to direction

Question 8

jackal

Answer 8

a nocturnal wild dog from the genus Canis

Question 9

jaded

Answer 9

dulled or vanishing

Question 10

jaunty

Answer 10

being very cheerful

Question 11

jeer

Answer 11

laugh at with contempt and derison

Question 12

jet

Answer 12

a dark black, a airplane with jet engines

Question 13

jet stream

Answer 13

strong winds in the upper trophosphere

Question 14

jetty

Answer 14

a protective structure of stone or concrete

Question 15

jig

Answer 15

a dance with kicking and leaping

Question 16

jilt

Answer 16

to reject or cast aside

Question 17

jingoism

Answer 17

fanactical patriotism

Question 18

jocund

Answer 18

cheerful, happy

Question 19

jostle

Answer 19

to make one’s way by pushing or shoving

Question 20

isthmus

Answer 20

a narrow strip of land with water on both sides

Question 21

journeyman

Answer 21

a skilled worker that practices some handicraft

Question 22

joust

Answer 22

a combat where two knight fight on horseback

Question 23

julienne

Answer 23

cut in small strips

Question 24

Jumpmaster

Answer 24

a person who supervises bungee jumping or paragliding

Question 25

juxtaposition

Answer 25

the act of positioning side by side

Question 26

kindred

Answer 26

related by blood or marriage

Question 27

kinescope

Answer 27

a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver

Question 28

kith and kin

Answer 28

acquaintances and relatives

Question 29

labyrinthine

Answer 29

complicated, tortuous

Question 30

lackey

Answer 30

a servile follower

Question 31

laggard

Answer 31

wasting time

Question 32

lambent

Answer 32

softly bright or radiant, moving lightly over a surface

Question 33

lampoon

Answer 33

to ridicule with satire

Question 34

largess

Answer 34

a gift or money given, general bestowal of gifts

Question 35

leery

Answer 35

distrust, suspicious

Question 36

leonine

Answer 36

pertaining to a lion

Question 37

Lethe

Answer 37

a river in Hades which made people forget the past who drank it

Question 38

levity

Answer 38

lack of seriousness, lightness in mind or body

Question 39

liaison

Answer 39

a illicit relationship

Question 40

libretto

Answer 40

the words in a opera or play