Vocab 1,001 - 1,020

Question 1

Nefarious

Answer 1

– adjective

1) extremely wicked or villainous: a nefarious plot.

Question 2

Deconflict

Answer 2

– verb

1) To alter (something) to avoid conflicting with something else: We need to deconflict our schedules to find a time when we can all meet.

Question 3

Cri de coeur (Cri-de-ker)

Answer 3

– noun

1) an anguished cry of distress or indignation; outcry.

Question 4

Fraught

Answer 4

– adjective

1) filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.

Question 5

Equivocate

Answer 5

– verb

1) to use ambiguous or unclear expressions to avoid commitment or to mislead: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.

Question 6

Stemware

Answer 6

– noun

1) glass or crystal vessels mounted on footed stems.

Question 7

Frottage

Answer 7

– verb

1) the practice of rubbing against something for sexual stimulation.

Question 8

Balkanization

Answer 8

– verb

1) to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.

Question 9

Reprise

Answer 9

– verb

3) to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.

Question 10

Braggadocio

Answer 10

– noun

1) empty boasting; bragging.

Question 11

Mangy

Answer 11

– Adjective

1) squalid; shabby: a mangy little suburb.

Question 12

Scabrous

Answer 12

– adjective

1) having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.

Question 13

Extempore

Answer 13

– adverb

1) on the spur of the moment, offhand: Questions were asked extempore from the floor.

Question 14

Preponderance

Answer 14

– noun

1) superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.

Question 15

Genuflect

Answer 15

– verb

1) to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.

Question 16

Duress

Answer 16

– noun

1) compulsion by threat or force.

Question 17

Redress

Answer 17

– noun

1) the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.

Question 18

Amnesty

Answer 18

– noun

1) a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.

Question 19

Attrit

Answer 19

– verb

1) to wear down.

Question 20

Appreciable

Answer 20

– adjective

1) considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.