Unit 3

Question 1

(adj) causing damage or harm; injurious

Answer 1

detrimental

Question 2

(adj) feeling regret and sorrow; penitent

Answer 2

contrite

Question 3

(adj) boring because of overuse or repetition

Answer 3

trite

Question 4

(n) debris; junk

Answer 4

detritus

Question 5

(n) a lowering in number

Answer 5

attrition

Question 6

(adj) not strict; generous

Answer 6

lenient

Question 7

(adj) easing pain or discord

Answer 7

lenitive

Question 8

(v) to soothe the feelings of; to appease

Answer 8

mollify

Question 9

(n) a basic idea or principle

Answer 9

rudiment

Question 10

(adj) implied or understood but not directly experienced

Answer 10

implicit

Question 11

(adj) difficult or impossible to explain

Answer 11

inexplicable

Question 12

(v) to branch out; to go different ways

Answer 12

diverge

Question 13

(v) to come together; to gather; to meet

Answer 13

converge

Question 14

(n) a climbing slope; a hill

Answer 14

acclivity

Question 15

(n) a downward slope; a dip

Answer 15

declivity

Question 16

(n) a natural tendency towards

Answer 16

proclivity

Question 17

(v) to twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape

Answer 17

controt

Question 18

(v) to misshape; misrepresent

Answer 18

distort

Question 19

(adj) curving or twisting

Answer 19

sinuous

Question 20

(v) to suggest in an indirect or subtle fashion

Answer 20

insinuate

Question 21

(adj) undeveloped; very basic or simple

Answer 21

rudimentary