Second semester vocabulary

Question 1

The four principles of Romanticism

Answer 1

• -The importance of emotion over reason
• -The importance of solitude over society
• -The importance of nature over technology
• -The innocent wisdom of children

Question 2

Fastidious

Answer 2

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail; nit-picky and critical

Question 3

Panegyric

Answer 3

a public speech or public text in praise of someone or something

Question 4

Ductility

Answer 4

malleability (bendebility)

Question 5

Supercilious

Answer 5

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

Question 6

Assailed

Answer 6

make a concerted (coordinated) or violent attack on; to attack

Question 7

Insipid

Answer 7

lacking flavor; lacking vigor or interest

Question 8

Arch

Answer 8

coy glance; deliberately playful and teasing

Question 9

Laconic

Answer 9

prone to not speaking much

Question 10

Asperity

Answer 10

harshness of tone or manner

Question 11

Obsequious

Answer 11

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile (excessively willing to please) degree; sycophantic (kiss up to people)

Question 12

Probity

Answer 12

righteousness; the quality of having strong moral principles

Question 13

Taciturn

Answer 13

reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

Question 14

Dissemble

Answer 14

deceive; conceal one’s true motives feelings or beliefs

Question 15

Profligate

Answer 15

recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources; wasteful (person)

Question 16

Copse

Answer 16

a small group of trees

Question 17

Tincture

Answer 17

a medicine or potion made by dissolving a drug in alcohol

Question 18

Protégé

Answer 18

a person who is guided and supported by a mentor or more experienced influential person

Question 19

Troglodytic

Answer 19

being secluded, primitive degraded or unacquainted with the affairs of the world; crude; caveman-like; uncivilized

Question 20

Holograph

Answer 20

a deed, will, or letter written by the person in whose name it appears

Question 21

Balderdash

Answer 21

a senseless, stupid or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense

Question 22

Apocryphal

Answer 22

of doubtful authorship or origin; false

Question 23

Juggernaut

Answer 23

any large, overpowering, destructive force or object

Question 24

Farrago

Answer 24

a confused mixture; hodgepodge; medley

Question 25

Incipient

Answer 25

beginning to exist or appear; in an initial state

Question 26

Eddy

Answer 26

a small whirlpool; circular movement of water

Question 27

Carbuncle

Answer 27

a painful circumscribed inflammation of the skin or tissue, resulting in the creation of pus and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil; some kind of jewel

Question 28

Ruminate

Answer 28

to chew again or over and over; to meditate or ponder

Question 29

Ken

Answer 29

knowledge, understanding or cognizance

Question 30

Denizen

Answer 30

an inhabitant, resident of a particular place a person who regularly frequents a place

Question 31

Sedulous

Answer 31

diligent in application or attention; persevering, assiduous(unrelenting), persistently or carefully managed

Question 32

Ebullition

Answer 32

seething or overflowing (with passion or feeling); a bubbly potion

Question 33

Dapper

Answer 33

well-dressed/tailored; neat, trim, smart; lively and brisk