Vocab 1,701 - 1,720

Question 1

Chateau (shah-toh)

Answer 1

– noun

1) A fine country estate.

Question 2

Pygmalion complex

Answer 2

– concept

1) The desire to create or work on someone, something until it’s perfect.

Question 3

Abject

Answer 3

– adjective

1) utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.

Question 4

Spurn

Answer 4

– verb

1) to reject with disdain; scorn.

Question 5

Spinsterhood

Answer 5

– noun

1) a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying. (Disparaging and Offensive)

Question 6

Boudoir

Answer 6

– noun

1) a woman’s bedroom or private sitting room.

Question 7

Varmint

Answer 7

• • noun

1) an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.

Question 8

Pedigree

Answer 8

– noun

1) an ancestral line / line of descent: We can trace the pedigree of princes

Question 9

Morass

Answer 9

– noun

1) a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp one that impedes progress

Question 10

Likewise

Answer 10

– adverb

1) in like manner.

Question 11

Dissident

Answer 11

– adjective

1) disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude:

Question 12

Enamor

Answer 12

– verb

1) to fill or inflame with love: a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.

Question 13

Beseech

Answer 13

– verb

1) to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.

Question 14

Monday Morning Quarterback

Answer 14

– noun

1) a person who passes judgment on and criticizes something after the event.

Question 15

Draconian

Answer 15

– adjective

1) unusually severe or cruel: Draconian forms of punishment.

Question 16

Rudimentary

Answer 16

– adjective

1) pertaining to first elementary principles: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.

Question 17

Obsolescent

Answer 17

– adjective

1) obsolete: an obsolescent term.

Question 18

Patronize

Answer 18

– verb

1) to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students.

Question 19

Corroborate

Answer 19

– verb

1) to confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.

Question 20

Gratuitous

Answer 20

– adjective

1) being without apparent reason/cause/justification: a gratuitous insult.