Reading 8 List 3

Question 1

Apprehend

Answer 1

To anticipate with dread or anxiety, get the meaning of something, take into custody

Question 2

Avid

Answer 2

Marked by active interest and enthusiasm, desiring and wanting to know more about

Question 3

Cajole

Answer 3

Gentle urging, caressing, flattering

Question 4

Compel

Answer 4

To force someone to do something

Question 5

Conundrum

Answer 5

A difficult problem

Question 6

Deed

Answer 6

A notable achievement, a document that ensures ownership of something

Question 7

Devoid

Answer 7

Completely lacking

Question 8

Disposition

Answer 8

Tendency, to get rid of

Question 9

Fabricate

Answer 9

To write in fictional form, false or deviating from what’s considered right

Question 10

Hearty

Answer 10

Warm friendliness, consuming abundantly, without reservation, exhibiting great bodily or mental health

Question 11

Lassitude

Answer 11

Feeling a lack of interest or energy, weakness, a state of torpor

Question 12

Mawkish

Answer 12

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Question 13

Mundane

Answer 13

Concerned within our world and worldly matters, found in an ordinary course of events

Question 14

Neophyte

Answer 14

A plant that has been found that was not recorded previously, a new convert, anyone participating in an activity

Question 15

Obsequious

Answer 15

Attempting to win favor with flattery

Question 16

Oratorical

Answer 16

Characterized as oratory

Question 17

Palpable

Answer 17

Able to be touched or felt

Question 18

Pedantic

Answer 18

Marked by narrow focus on minor aspects

Question 19

Placatory

Answer 19

Trying to pacify by acceding to demands and concessions

Question 20

Primeval

Answer 20

Earliest stage, having existed from the beginning

Question 21

Propitious

Answer 21

Likely to result in success

Question 22

Pulchritude

Answer 22

Physical beauty

Question 23

Recalcitrant

Answer 23

Stubbornness

Question 24

Reprove

Answer 24

Take to task

Question 25

Retrograde

Answer 25

Of amnesia, before trauma, moving from east to west, orbiting the opposite direction of earth, going from better to worse

Question 26

Salient

Answer 26

Thrusting attention

Question 27

Snide

Answer 27

Disrespect, nasty comment

Question 28

Spontaneity

Answer 28

Being spontaneous

Question 29

Tenacious

Answer 29

Sticking together, being stubbornly unyielding

Question 30

Trivial

Answer 30

Obvious, dull, of small importance

Question 31

Vacillate

Answer 31

Sway in a wave like pattern

Question 32

Vicissitude

Answer 32

Change, mutation

Question 33

Wanton

Answer 33

And action that causes harm

Question 34

Abrogate

Answer 34

To abolish formally