Voca 7

Question 1

requite

Answer 1

You can requite a friend’s kindness by doing your friend a favor or by being kind in return. Requite means “to repay or return.”

Question 2

uncouth

Answer 2

When you’re at a fancy dinner party, if you burp after you eat, use your fingers to spread butter on your bread, and hang spoons from your nose, people will probably say you are uncouth, meaning vulgar and ill-mannered.

Question 3

gauche

Answer 3

Use the word gauche when you want to call something tacky, graceless, tactless, rude, boorish, or awkward and foolish. Have you just pointed out someone’s misuse of this word? Oh dear, how gauche!

Question 4

dismay

Answer 4

If you discover late Sunday night that the dog really did eat your homework, you might cry out in dismay. Dismay describes an emotional state of alarm, fear, or serious disappointment.