Unit 13 Vocabulary

Question 1

Abet

Answer 1

(v) to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy)
A: hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate

Question 2

Aver

Answer 2

(v) to affirm, declare confidently
S: assert, asseverate, avouch
A: deny, disavow, repudiate, disclaim

Question 3

Blatant

Answer 3

(adj.) noisy in course, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in a unfavorable sense
S: flagrant, glaring, egregious, disagreeably loud
A: inconsequential, trifling, piddling, petty

Question 4

Broach

Answer 4

(v) to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject); to announce, introduce; to break the surface of the water; to pierce; (n) a spit for roasting; a tool for tapping casks

Question 5

Buttress

Answer 5

(v) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n) a supporting structure
S: bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up
A: undermine, weaken, impair

Question 6

Carousal

Answer 6

(n) noisy revelry or merrymaking (often with a suggestion of heavy drinking
S: drinking bout, drunken revel, binge

Question 7

Collate

Answer 7

(v) to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, etc.; to arrange in order for some scientific purpose
S: sort out, cross-check, rearrange

Question 8

Connoisseur

Answer 8

(n) an expert; one who is well qualified to pass critical judgments, especially in one of the fine arts
S: authority, savant, pundit
A: ignoramus, philistine, yahoo

Question 9

Disconsolate

Answer 9

(adj.) deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation
S: grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless
A: cheerful, blithe, buoyant, jaunty

Question 10

Encumber

Answer 10

(v) to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up, block up, hinder
S: overload, saddle, hamper, clog
A: unburden, unload, relieve

Question 11

Foment

Answer 11

(v) to promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm
S: instigate, incite, stir up
A: quell, quash, squelch, supress

Question 12

Grisly

Answer 12

(adj.) frightful, horrible, ghastly
S: gruesome, gory, hideous
A: pleasant, delightful, attractive

Question 13

Herculean

Answer 13

(adj.) (capital H) relating to Hercules
characterized by great strength; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength
S: mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, colossal
A: puny, Lilliputian, bantam

Question 14

Impassive

Answer 14

(adj.) showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate; motionless
S: emotionless, stoical, unemotional, insensible
A: emotional, passionate, excitable

Question 15

Inauspicious

Answer 15

(adj.) unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future
S:unpropitious, unpromising, untimely
A: propitious, favorable

Question 16

Incontrovertible

Answer 16

(adj.) unquestionable, beyond dispute
S: incontestable, indisputable, indubitable
A: debatable, dubious, open to question

Question 17

Nonplussed

Answer 17

(adj., part.) puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss
S: perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted
A: poised, confident, assured

Question 18

Opportune

Answer 18

(adj.) suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occurring at an appropriate time
S: timely, appropriate, felicitous
A: untimely, inconvenient, inappropriate

Question 19

Prolific

Answer 19

(adj.) abundantly productive; abundant, profuse
S: fruitful, fecund, proliferous
A: barren, unprductive, sterile, sparse

Question 20

Rejoinder

Answer 20

(n) a reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit
S: answer, reply, response, riposte, retort