Vocab 1-10

Question 1

Abhorrent

Answer 1

Inspiring disgust and loathing; hated

Question 2

Augmented

Answer 2

Made greater in size or value

Question 3

Calamity

Answer 3

Event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; disaster

Question 4

Capacious

Answer 4

Spacious;roomy; commodious

Question 5

Carnage

Answer 5

Killing of a large number of people

Question 6

Commiserate

Answer 6

Feel or express sympathy;to pity

Question 7

Conflagration

Answer 7

Extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property

Question 8

Countenance

Answer 8

Facial features

Question 9

Cursory

Answer 9

Hastily done; superficial

Question 10

Detrimental

Answer 10

Tending to cause harm; damaging

Question 11

Diabolical

Answer 11

Belonging so much to evil that it brings the devil to mind

Question 12

Emaciated

Answer 12

Thin;waste almost to the point of nothingness

Question 13

Epithets

Answer 13

Adj or description phrase that describes or renames that thing mentioned; often negative sense

Question 14

Harrowing

Answer 14

Distressing; agonizing

Question 15

Ignominious

Answer 15

Deserving of causing public disgrace or shame

Question 16

Immutable

Answer 16

Unchanging overtime or unable to be changed

Question 17

Imperious

Answer 17

Assuming power or authority without justification

Question 18

Indolence

Answer 18

Avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness

Question 19

Inexorable

Answer 19

Relentless;unyielding; impossible to stop or prevent

Question 20

Languid

Answer 20

Weary, listless, weak, faint; often from illness or fatigue

Question 21

Obdurate

Answer 21

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s course action

Question 22

Penury

Answer 22

Extreme poverty; bareness

Question 23

Precipitous

Answer 23

Dangerously high or steep; done suddenly and without careful consideration

Question 24

Progeny

Answer 24

Decendent; offspring; children; followers; disciples

Question 25

Purloined

Answer 25

Taken from another without right or detection; stolen

Question 26

Rankling

Answer 26

Causing annoyance or resentment that persist

Question 27

Repugnance

Answer 27

Intense disgust or loath

Question 28

Reveries

Answer 28

State of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream

Question 29

Salubrious

Answer 29

Health giving; healthy; not run down

Question 30

Sustenance

Answer 30

Means of food or nourishments