Vocab 1,021 - 1,040

Question 1

Edifice

Answer 1

– noun

1) a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.

Question 2

Cause Célèbre

Answer 2

– noun

1) any controversy that attracts great public attention, as a celebrated legal case or trial.

Question 3

Prognosis

Answer 3

– noun

1) a forecast or prognostication.

Question 4

Nebbish

Answer 4

– noun

1) a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.

Question 5

Bromides

Answer 5

– noun

1) a platitude or trite saying.

Question 6

Boomlet

Answer 6

– noun

1) a brief increase, as in business activity or political popularity.

Question 7

Schlemiel

Answer 7

– noun

1) an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.

Question 8

Syzygy

Answer 8

– noun

1) an alignment of three celestial objects (ex: as the sun, the earth, and either the moon): Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.

Question 9

Balkanization

Answer 9

– verb

1) to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states: a movement to balkanize minority voters.

Question 10

Reprise

Answer 10

– verb

1) to repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.

Question 11

Braggadocio

Answer 11

– noun / verb

1) empty boasting or a boasting person.

Question 12

Mangy

Answer 12

– adjective

1) squalid; shabby: a mangy little suburb.

Question 13

Scabrous

Answer 13

– adjective

1) having a rough surface / scandalous / full of difficulties.

Question 14

Extempore (ex-tem-po-rie)

Answer 14

– adverb / adjective

1) on the spur of the moment; without preparation: Questions were asked extempore from the floor.

Question 15

Preponderance

Answer 15

– noun

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

Question 16

Unitary

Answer 16

– adjective

1) of, pertaining to, characterized by, or aiming toward unity: the unitary principles of nationalism.

Question 17

Genuflect

Answer 17

– verb

1) to bow down or to express a servile attitude.

Question 18

Duress

Answer 18

– noun

1) compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.

Question 19

Redress

Answer 19

– noun / verb

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

Question 20

Lothario

Answer 20

– noun

1) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women..