Unit 7 Vocabulary

Question 1

Allay

Answer 1

• S: Reduce, alleviate, moderate

- A: Aggravate, exacerbate, intensify

Question 2

Bestial

Answer 2

• S: Animalistic, loathsome

- A: Human, Clement, virtuous,upright

Question 3

Convivial

Answer 3

• S: Funloving, jovial, merry

- A: dour, sullen, unsociable

Question 4

Coterie

Answer 4

-S: clique, set

Question 5

Counterpart

Answer 5

-S: match

Question 6

Demur

Answer 6

• S: Protest, object to

- A: assent to, consent to, accept, agree

Question 7

Effrontery

Answer 7

• S: Chutzpah, nerve, impertinence, cheek

- A: Shyness, diffidence, timidity

Question 8

Embellish

Answer 8

• S: Garnish

- A: strip, mar, disfigure

Question 9

Ephemeral

Answer 9

• S: transient, evanescence, transitory

- A: Durable, long-lasting, permanent, perpetual

Question 10

Felicitous

Answer 10

• S: fortunate, well-put

- A: Inappropriate, inept, graceless, unhappy

Question 11

Furtive

Answer 11

• S: covert, surreptitious

- A: Aboveboard, open

Question 12

Garish

Answer 12

• S: gaudy, flashy, tawdry

- A: Subdued, muted, understated, quiet

Question 13

Illusory

Answer 13

• S: specious, spurious, imaginary

- A: actual, real, factual, objective

Question 14

Indigent

Answer 14

• S: penniless, poverty-stricken, destitute

- A: Affluent, prosperous

Question 15

Inordinate

Answer 15

• S: Exorbitant, extravagant

- A: Reasonable, equitable

Question 16

Jettison

Answer 16

• S:Cast off, discard, dump, junk

- A: conserve, retain, hold on to, keep

Question 17

Misanthrope

Answer 17

-S: people-hater

Question 18

Pertinacious

Answer 18

-S: stubborn, determined

Question 19

Picayune

Answer 19

• S: Piddling, trifling

- A: Important, significant, huge, gigantic

Question 20

Raiment

Answer 20

-S: apparel, attire