Unit 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

Beguiled

Answer 1

charm or enchant; the dog was beguiled by the new bone

Question 2

enmity

Answer 2

hostile to something; Sarah and Jeff never got along, there has been enmity between them for years.

Question 3

hearkened

Answer 3

to listen; Henry could not hit the ball, he never hearkened to the instructors tips.

Question 4

wroth

Answer 4

very angry; The man was wroth when he saw his car was hit.

Question 5

countenance

Answer 5

facial expression; She always has a smiling countenance

Question 6

covenant

Answer 6

an agreement; The treaty was a covenant between all of the nations.

Question 7

vagabond

Answer 7

a person who wanders without a job or home; The sailors were vagabonds, going from port to port.

Question 8

enigmatic

Answer 8

difficult to understand or mysterious; The soldier was enigmatic, he never spoke to any of the people in the military.

Question 9

inextricably

Answer 9

inseparable; The couple was inextricably drawn to each other.

Question 10

dovetail

Answer 10

to join together; Their show should dovetail with ours, they are very similar

Question 11

tangential

Answer 11

diverging from a precious idea, course, or tangent; They spent lots of time talking about tangential topics and not discussing the real issue.

Question 12

contentious

Answer 12

likely to cause an argument; In the deal, the businessman was contentious with the disagreeing law firm.

Question 13

degradation

Answer 13

being worn down; After losing all of his money, the man led a life of degradation.

Question 14

transgression

Answer 14

an act that goes against the law; After committing the transgression, he listened as the judge read him his punishment.

Question 15

peradventure

Answer 15

perhaps, possibly. chance, doubt; Her peradventure about the exam made her feel she would fail.

Question 16

parsing

Answer 16

analyze into parts; The reader loves parsing sentences and identifying the parts of speech.

Question 17

parochial

Answer 17

relating to a church parish; The parochial system has survived for many years.

Question 18

nexus

Answer 18

a series of connections linking two or more things; The friends had a nexus because their parents were best friends when they were growing up.

Question 19

preoccupation

Answer 19

engrossed with something; The preoccupation with her lab partner was starting to affect their projects together.

Question 20

abated

Answer 20

to become less intense; The pain slowly abated and she was able to run again.

Question 21

assuage/asswaged

Answer 21

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense; He did what he could to assuage his guilt of the murder.

Question 22

cleave

Answer 22

split or sever (something) apart; You can use an axe to cleave the tree.