Scholarship Lesson 4

Question 1

Adriot

Answer 1

Cleverly skillful in coping with diffculty or danger; shrewd resourceful dexterous.

Question 2

Adversary

Answer 2

Person or group that oppses another; opponent foe enemy.

Question 3

Avert

Answer 3

Turn away or aside ward off; prevent forestall obviate.

Question 4

Cogent

Answer 4

Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing sound

Question 5

Demolish

Answer 5

Tear down; destroy raze smash.

Question 6

Evaporate

Answer 6

Pass off as vapor (moisture in the air) or invisibile minute particles; disappear vanish.

Question 7

Fiscal

Answer 7

Pertaining to money or finance; financial monetary pecuniary.

Question 8

Hamper

Answer 8

Hold back interfere with; hinder impede obstruct.

Question 9

Humid

Answer 9

Containing a perceptible amount of mositure; damp mosit wet

Question 10

Inundate

Answer 10

Overspread with water; flood deluge overwhelm swamp.

Question 11

Mammouth

Answer 11

Of very great size; gigantic giant huge enormous.

Question 12

Manifest

Answer 12

Make clear show plainly; envince demonstrate.

Question 13

Obnoxious

Answer 13

Deserving of censure; reprehensible objectionable offensive

Question 14

Plight

Answer 14

Dangerous or complicated situation; predicament dislemma

Question 15

Replenish

Answer 15

Make full or complete agian; refill renew restore.

Question 16

Reprimand

Answer 16

Severe rebuke; condemnation censure reproof

Question 17

Rescind

Answer 17

Take away make void; annual cancel repeal abolish.

Question 18

Reticent

Answer 18

Disinclined to speak readily; close-mouthed silent taciturn uncommunicative

Question 19

Reverse

Answer 19

Regard as worthy of great honor; venerate worship adore

Question 20

Sinister

Answer 20

Threating or forshadowing harim or trouble; malevolent ominous