Unit 2

Question 1

tenement

Answer 1

apartment house, often run down

Question 2

profound

Answer 2

deep, intense

Question 3

vigilant

Answer 3

watchful

Question 4

dilapidated

Answer 4

broken down

Question 5

distraught

Answer 5

troubled or confused

Question 6

insolent

Answer 6

boldly disrespectful

Question 7

inscrutable

Answer 7

baffling

Question 8

pallid

Answer 8

pale

Question 9

disconsolately

Answer 9

very unhappily

Question 10

unrequited

Answer 10

not returned or repaid

Question 11

precipitous

Answer 11

steep; sheer

Question 12

condolences

Answer 12

expressions of sympathy with another in grief

Question 13

languor

Answer 13

lack of vigor

Question 14

venture

Answer 14

a risky or daring journey or undertaking

Question 15

rueful

Answer 15

expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way

Question 16

resplendent

Answer 16

attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous

Question 17

pungent

Answer 17

having a sharply strong taste or smell

Question 18

benevolent

Answer 18

well meaning and kindly

Question 19

retort

Answer 19

say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner

Question 20

malodorous

Answer 20

smelling very unpleasant

Question 21

formality

Answer 21

the rigid observance of rules of convention or etiquette

Question 22

reckless

Answer 22

without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action

Question 23

imminent

Answer 23

about to happen

Question 24

infallibility

Answer 24

the quality of being infallible; the inability to be wrong

Question 25

precariously

Answer 25

not securely held or in position