Pride and Prejudice Vocab #21-40

Question 1

Complaisance(n)
Complaisant(adj)

Answer 1

desirous to please; affable; obliging; gracious

Question 2

Arch(adj)

Answer 2

cunning; sly; mischievous; rougish

Question 3

Insipidity(n)

Answer 3

deficiency in spirit, life, or animation

Question 4

Intrepidity(n)

Answer 4

undaunted courage

Question 5

Prognostic(n)(adj)

Answer 5

• a forecast; a prediction
• foretwlling; predictiong

Question 6

Impute(v)

Answer 6

to ascribe to (in a bad sense); to attribute to

Question 7

Draughts(n)

Answer 7

English (the country) term for medicine

Question 8

Entail(v)(n)

Answer 8

• to settle land on persons in succession none of whom can then dispose of it; to bring about or cause
• an estate

Question 9

Affinity(n)

Answer 9

close agreement; attraction; resemblance; similarity

Question 10

Profuse(adj)

Answer 10

giving or given generously; lavish; extravagant

Question 11

Efficacy(n)

Answer 11

power to produce the desired effects

Question 12

Panegyric(n)

Answer 12

speech or writing of praise; a eulogy

Question 13

Laudable(adj)

Answer 13

commendable

Question 14

Precipitance(n)

Answer 14

headlong hurry; rash haste

Question 15

Celerity(n)

Answer 15

speed; swiftness; rapidity of motion

Question 16

Appertain(n)

Answer 16

to belong by nature; to relate

Question 17

Expostulate(v)

Answer 17

to remonstrate with; no reason earnestly

Question 18

Approbation(n)

Answer 18

approval; sanction

Question 19

Propensity(n)

Answer 19

bent of mind; leaning or inclination

Question 20

Propitious(adj)

Answer 20

favorable; favorably inclined