Scholarship Voc. Lesson 4

Question 0

Adversary

Answer 0

A person or group that opposes another

Question 1

Adroit

Answer 1

Clearly skillful in coping with difficulty or danger.

Question 2

Avert

Answer 2

Turn away or aside; Ward off

Question 3

Cogent

Answer 3

Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing, sound.

Question 4

Demolish

Answer 4

tear down; destroy, raze; smash

Question 5

Evaporate

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Fiscal

Answer 6

Pertaining to money or finance

financial; monetary; pecuniary.

Question 7

Hamper

Answer 7

hold back; interfere with.

Hinder, impede, obstruct.

Question 8

Humid

Answer 8

Containing a perceptible amount of moisture.

damp, moist, wet

Question 9

Inundate

Answer 9

Overspread with water

flood; deluge; overwhelm; swamp

Question 10

Mommoth

Answer 10

of very great size

gigantic, giant, huge, enormous

Question 11

Manifest

Answer 11

Make clear; Show plainly;

Evince, demonstrate, reveal

Question 12

Obnoxious

Answer 12

deserving of censure

reprehensible,objectionable, offensive.

Question 13

Plight

Answer 13

dangerous or complicated situation

predicament, dilemma

Question 14

Replenish

Answer 14

make full of or complete again

refill; renew; restore

Question 15

Reprimand

Answer 15

serve rebuke

Condemnation, censure, reproof

Question 16

Rescind

Answer 16

to take away, make void

annul, cancel, repeal, abolish

Question 17

reticent

Answer 17

disinclined to speak readily

closed-mouthed, silent, taciturn, uncommunicative.

Question 18

Revere

Answer 18

regard as worthy of great honor;

venerate; worship, adore

Question 19

sinister

Answer 19

threatening or foreshadowing harm or trouble

malevolent; ominous