Unit 12 Vocabulary

Question 1

Aesthetic

Answer 1

-adj. pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty

Question 2

Defunct

Answer 2

-adj. no longer in existence or functioning, dead

Question 3

Discomfit

Answer 3

v. to frustrate, thwart, or defeat; to confuse, perplex, or embarrass

Question 4

Espouse

Answer 4

-v. to take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry

Question 5

Fetish

Answer 5

-n. an object believed to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence

Question 6

Gregarious

Answer 6

-adj. living together in a herd or group; sociable, seeking the company of others

Question 7

Hapless

Answer 7

-adj. marked by a persistent absence of good luck

Question 8

Impeccable

Answer 8

-adj. faultless, beyond criticism or blame

Question 9

Importune

Answer 9

-v. to trouble with demands; to beg for insistently

Question 10

Interpolate

Answer 10

-v. to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction

Question 11

Irreparable

Answer 11

-adj. incapable of being repaired or rectified

Question 12

Laconic

Answer 12

-adj. concise, using few words

Question 13

Languish

Answer 13

-v. to become weak, feeble, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect

Question 14

Mendacious

Answer 14

-adj. given to lying or deception; untrue

Question 15

Nadir

Answer 15

-The Lowest Point

Question 16

Omnipresent

Answer 16

-present in all places at all times

Question 17

Perfunctory

Answer 17

-adj. done in a superficial or halfhearted manner; without interest or enthusiasm

Question 18

Plaintive

Answer 18

-adj. expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy

Question 19

Requite

Answer 19

-Verb: to make suitable repayment, as for a kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate

Question 20

Tantamount

Answer 20

-Adj: equivalent, having the same meaning, value, or effect