Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

Cavort

Answer 1

Frolic or play

Question 2

Credence

Answer 2

Believing or accepting something is true

Question 3

Decry

Answer 3

Condemn, express a strong disapproval

Question 4

Dissemble

Answer 4

To conceal one’s true motives, give a false impression

Question 5

Distraught

Answer 5

Agitated or upset, distressed

Question 6

Eulogy

Answer 6

Speech to pay tribute to the dead

Question 7

Evince

Answer 7

To display, to exhibit

Question 8

Exhume

Answer 8

To remove from a grave, to bring to light

Question 9

Feckless

Answer 9

Ineffective, irresponsible, unreliable

Question 10

Murky

Answer 10

Unclear, dark and gloomy

Question 11

Nefarious

Answer 11

Wicked, depraved, corrupted

Question 12

Piquant

Answer 12

Stimulating to the mind or taste, spicy

Question 13

Primordial

Answer 13

Existing since the beginning of time, going back to the earliest stage

Question 14

Propinquity

Answer 14

Nearness in place or time, similarity

Question 15

Substantive

Answer 15

Meaningful

Question 16

Unwonted

Answer 16

Unusual, unexpected

Question 17

Utopian

Answer 17

An ideal world, idealistic

Question 18

Verbiage

Answer 18

Speech or writing that uses too many words or excessively technical expressions

Question 19

Verdant

Answer 19

Green, naive

Question 20

Viscous

Answer 20

Sticky and thick