Unit 4 vocabulary

Question 1

Affable

Answer 1

courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to.

Question 2

aggrandize

Answer 2

to increase in greatness, power, or wealth

Question 3

amorphous

Answer 3

shapeless, without definite form

Question 4

archetype

Answer 4

an original model on which something was patterned or replicated

Question 5

aura

Answer 5

a distinctive air or personal quality

Question 6

contraband

Answer 6

illegal traffic, smuggled goods

Question 7

erudite

Answer 7

scholarly, learned, bookish

Question 8

gossamer

Answer 8

thin, light, delicate

Question 9

inscrutable

Answer 9

incapable of being understood

Question 10

insular

Answer 10

narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

Question 10

irrevocable

Answer 10

incapable of being changed

Question 11

propensity

Answer 11

a natural inclination

Question 12

querulous

Answer 12

peevish, complaining

Question 13

remonstrate

Answer 13

to argue with someone against something

Question 14

repudiate

Answer 14

to disown, reject

Question 15

resilient

Answer 15

able to recover quickly

Question 16

reverberate

Answer 16

to re-echo

Question 17

scurrilous

Answer 17

coarsely abusive

Question 18

sedulous

Answer 18

persistent

Question 19

sleazy

Answer 19

thin or flimsy in texture