Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocab-Set 1

Question 0

Remorseless (adjective)

Answer 0

Shameless

Sentence: The criminal was sentenced for life because the judge saw that the criminal was remorseless and the crime committed was intolerable.

Question 1

Sodden (adjective)

Answer 1

Filled with moisture; soaked through

Sentence: Our clothes became sodden because we walked through the rain to our destination.

Question 2

Languid (adjective)

Answer 2

Lifeless

Sentence: It’s peaceful to take a languid walk through the quiet beach after a stressful day at work.

Question 3

Dissolution (noun)

Answer 3

Disintegration of

Sentence: The dissolution of their marriage occurred because of the spouse’s infidelity to his wife.

Question 4

Desecrating (verb)

Answer 4

To take away the sacredness of

Sentence: Mathew was banned from the temple because he desecrated it by shouting very loudly.

Question 5

Compel (verb)

Answer 5

To force

Sentence: She rejected my proposal and put the box in my pocket, compelling me to keep the ring.

Question 6

Conjectures (verb)

Answer 6

To predict from incomplete evidence

Sentence: I’ve made various conjectures in how the victim could have been murdered.

Question 7

Malice (noun)

Answer 7

The deliberate desire to harm another.

Sentence: She recoiled inwardly at the malice in his eyes.

Question 8

Mien (noun)

Answer 8

A way of looking

Sentence: Nikos has the mien of a young Greek monk and the young Greek monk wants it back.

Question 9

Incredulous (adjective)

Answer 9

Disbelieving

Sentence: He couldn’t blame her for looking incredulous after hearing what happened to her family.

Question 10

Dolefully (adjective)

Answer 10

Looking sorrowfully

Sentence: She had a doleful expression on her face after she heard the news of her parents’ death.

Question 11

Surly (adjective)

Answer 11

Hostile and uncivil

Sentence: Before she could finish her explanation, her brothers clamored into the room, each looking very surly.

Question 12

Temerity (noun)

Answer 12

Foolishness, rash boldness

Sentence: He now bitterly regretted his temerity in braving the danger.

Question 13

Dilemma (noun)

Answer 13

Puzzle

Juggling school, work, and her siblings had put Jenna in a dilemma when she to work a double shift that day.

Question 14

Fractious (adjective)

Answer 14

Hard to manage, unruly

I didn’t realize things could get so fractious so quickly until I started working in the day care.

Question 15

Decorum (noun)

Answer 15

Rules for proper behavior

Sentence: She accepted his report without displaying her sadness but with decorum.

Question 16

Chasten (verb)

Answer 16

To subdue, to humble

Sentence: Chastened by the experience, I never took upon such behavior again.

Question 17

Prostrating (adjective)

Answer 17

Lying down in submission

Sentence: Men, women children, were all prostrated on the floor by the orders of the soldiers.

Question 18

Stolidness (adjective)

Answer 18

Showing no emotion, impassive

Sentence: His stolid expression led the judge to be confused on the situation of whether the defendant was guilty or innocent.

Question 19

Commiserated (verb)

Answer 19

To show or feel sorrow for

Sentence: She commiserated with the family for the loss of their loved one.

Question 20

Ostentatiously (noun)

Answer 20

Conspicuously, obviously

Sentence: He sat at the the table, ostentatiously noting the names of the students who were participating.

Question 21

Strife (noun)

Answer 21

The act or state of struggling or fighting

Strife tore up nations and caused them to separate

Question 22

Usurper (noun)

Answer 22

To be where you don’t belong, to take what isn’t yours

Sentence: The citizens rebelled against the usurper, who took the throne by murdering the legitimate heir.

Question 23

Refracted (verb)

Answer 23

To bend of send off in another direction

Sentence: When light passes from a less dense to a more dense substance, the light is refracted.