Reading 8 Vocab List 11

Question 1

Ambivalent

Answer 1

Uncertain and unable to decide

Question 2

Aromatic

Answer 2

Having a strong pleasant odor

Question 3

Belligerent

Answer 3

Engaged in war, someone willing or involved in a fight

Question 4

Charge

Answer 4

To entrust someone with a task, request for payment, run towards, description of wrong doing

Question 5

Concomitant

Answer 5

An event that is connected to another, something in the result of another thing

Question 6

Counterbalance

Answer 6

Equality in force, to contradict something with equal force

Question 7

Deft

Answer 7

Skillful in movement, especially with hands

Question 8

Dilapidated

Answer 8

Run down and deplorable in condition

Question 9

Dogmatic

Answer 9

To be sure that you are right and not accept other opinions

Question 10

Endeavor

Answer 10

Truthful no earnest activity to gain success, to work hard and honestly

Question 11

Exceptional

Answer 11

Beyond expected degree

Question 12

Fastidious

Answer 12

Excessively concerned with details

Question 13

Fraudulent

Answer 13

Fake, intended to deceive

Question 14

Humanitarian

Answer 14

Respecting humanistic values, devotion to the welfare of humans

Question 15

Inchoate

Answer 15

Only partly in existent, not fully formed

Question 16

Lightheartedness

Answer 16

Cheerful and void of worry

Question 17

Meteoric

Answer 17

Exceptionally fast, phenomenon

Question 18

Mollify

Answer 18

To make softer, to calm and make lenient

Question 19

Nadir

Answer 19

Extreme devastation, lowest point

Question 20

Novelty

Answer 20

New and refreshing, cheap an pd showy

Question 21

Onerous

Answer 21

Oppressive, troublesome, causing hardship

Question 22

Outstrip

Answer 22

To break free of limits, to stretch farther

Question 23

Partisanship

Answer 23

Inclined to keep one view and ignore all other alternatives

Question 24

Perilous

Answer 24

Fraught with danger

Question 25

Philanthropist

Answer 25

Someone who makes donations for human well being

Question 26

Polemical

Answer 26

Displaying controversy

Question 27

Preoccupation

Answer 27

The mental state of being occupied with something, something that takes your attention

Question 28

Prognosis

Answer 28

A prediction of the four of a disease

Ex. The stages of lung cancer

Question 29

Protege

Answer 29

A person who receives support no protection from an influential patron

Question 30

Querulous

Answer 30

Habitually complaining

Question 31

Recount

Answer 31

Extra count, to count again

Question 32

Renounce

Answer 32

Cast off, or de-own, turn away from give up

Question 33

Restive

Answer 33

Being in a tense state

Question 34

Robust

Answer 34

Rough and crude, physically or intellectually strong, rich and full in flavor

Question 35

seclusion

Answer 35

Excluding yourself from others, being unnoticed by others

Question 36

Shortcoming

Answer 36

A fail or deficiency

Question 37

Sophistication

Answer 37

Misleading, being sophisticated without worldly knowledge

Question 38

Stipulate

Answer 38

To make an oral agreement, specify as a requirement in a contract

Question 39

Sundry

Answer 39

Various or diverse

Question 40

Tantalize

Answer 40

Teas or harass

Question 41

Transient

Answer 41

Short change, mental act

Question 42

Umbrage

Answer 42

Anger from being offended

Question 43

Undertake

Answer 43

Promise to accomplish, accept as a challenge

Question 44

Unsubstantiated

Answer 44

Not supported by anything else

Question 45

Veracity

Answer 45

Unwillingness to tell lies

Question 46

Vivid

Answer 46

Clarity

Question 47

Wizened

Answer 47

Aged, wrinkled

Question 48

Acrimony

Answer 48

Bitter and rough manner