TKAM Vocab 2

Question 0

Sustain: verb

Answer 0

• lengthen or extend duration or space
• supply with necessities and support
• provide with nourishment
• admit as valid

Question 1

Hypocrite

Answer 1

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun)

Question 2

Cantankerous: adjective

Answer 2

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

- having a difficult and contrary disposition

Question 3

Peril: noun

Answer 3

• a state of danger involving risk
• a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
• a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

Question 4

Contradict: verb

Answer 4

• to go against or say the opposite of someone
• to prove negative; to show to be false
• to deny the truth of

Question 5

Acquire: verb

Answer 5

-to come to possess an object, a trait, a skill, or an inability

Question 6

Pensive: adjective

Answer 6

• meditating; lost in thought

- contemplative

Question 7

Antagonize: verb

Answer 7

• to cause to become hostile
• to incur the dislike of
• to provoke someone to react angrily

Question 8

Contemporaries: noun

Answer 8

• people or things existing at the same time

- people of roughly the same age

Question 9

Emerge: verb

Answer 9

• to come forth into view or notice
• to rise up from (or as if from) water or other liquid
• to come into existence
• to rise in status, state, or condition

Question 10

Infallible: adjective

Answer 10

• absolutely trustworthy or sure
• exempt from mistakes
• certain
• reliable

Question 11

Stealthy: adjective

Answer 11

• sneaky

- characterized by great caution or secrecy

Question 12

Irrelevant: adjective

Answer 12

• does not apply
• not important
• not relating to the matter at hand

Question 13

Pursuit: noun

Answer 13

• an occupation; a pastime; a hobby
• an effort to secure or attain; a quest
• the act of pursuing

Question 14

Inevitable: adjective

Answer 14

• certain
• necessary
• unable to be avoided
• sure to occur