Unit 11

Question 0

Censurable

Answer 0

Deserving the blame or correction

Question 1

Abstemious

Answer 1

Moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline

Question 2

Contingent

Answer 2

Likely by not certain to happen

Question 3

Corroborate

Answer 3

To confirm, make more certain, verify

Question 4

Denizen

Answer 4

An inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

Question 5

Discursive

Answer 5

Passing aimlessly from one subject to another, rambling

Question 6

Disseminate

Answer 6

To scatter or spread wildly

Question 7

Dowdy

Answer 7

Poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste

Question 8

Florid

Answer 8

Highly colored, reddish

Question 9

Foist

Answer 9

To impose by fraud; to pass of as worthy or genuine

Question 10

Gauche

Answer 10

Awkward, lacking in social graces

Question 11

Heresy

Answer 11

An opinion different from accepted belief

Question 12

Inculcate

Answer 12

To impress on the mind by repetition

Question 13

Palpable

Answer 13

Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized

Question 14

Perceptive

Answer 14

Having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation

Question 15

Pernicious

Answer 15

Extremely harmful; deadly fatal

Question 16

Salient

Answer 16

Leaping, jumping, or springing forth; a projection or budge

Question 17

Satiate

Answer 17

To satisfy completely; to fill to excess

Question 18

Sear

Answer 18

To make or become dry or withered

Question 19

Specious

Answer 19

Deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit