Unit 8 Vocab.

Question 1

(Adj.) secret; furtive; sneaky, hidden

Answer 1

Surreptitious

Question 2

(adj.) impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to

Answer 2

Susceptible

Question 3

(V.) experience; support; nourish

Answer 3

Sustain

Question 4

(N.) cheat

Answer 4

Swindler

Question 5

(N.) servile flatterer; boot licker; yes man

Answer 5

Sycophant

Question 6

(V.) to exceed

Answer 6

Surpass

Question 7

(N.) arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained congruity

Answer 7

Symmetry

Question 8

(Adj.) habitually silent; talking little

Answer 8

Taciturn

Question 9

(Adj.) peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing

Answer 9

Tangential

Question 10

(N.) highly skilled artist

Answer 10

Virtuoso

Question 11

(Adj.) extremely poisonous; hostile; bitter

Answer 11

Virulent

Question 12

(Adj.) changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly

Answer 12

Volatile

Question 13

(Adj.) fluent; glib; talkative

Answer 13

Voluble

Question 14

(Adj.) bulky; large

Answer 14

Voluminous

Question 15

(Adj.) susceptible to wounds

Answer 15

Vulnerable

Question 16

(Adj.) capricious; fanciful

Answer 16

Whimsical

Question 17

(Adj.) intentional; headstrong; stubbornly set on getting one’s way

Answer 17

Willful

Question 18

(Verb, noun) contaminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad

Answer 18

Taint