vocab #10

Question 1

with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval

Answer 1

askance

Question 2

to make thin or slender; to weaken of lessen in force, intensity, or value

Answer 2

attenuate

Question 3

gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant

Answer 3

benign

Question 4

to find fault in a petty way, carp

Answer 4

cavil

Question 5

one who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack

Answer 5

charlatan

Question 6

to kill or destroy a large part of

Answer 6

decimate

Question 7

a weak point, failing, minor flaw

Answer 7

foible

Question 8

to do without, abstain from, give up

Answer 8

forgo

Question 9

full of or loaded with; accompanied by

Answer 9

fraught

Question 10

to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure

Answer 10

inure

Question 11

emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating

Answer 11

luminous

Question 12

marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons

Answer 12

obsequious

Question 13

blunt, not coming to the point; slow of dull in understanding; measuring between 90 and 180 degrees; not causing a sharp impression

Answer 13

obtuse

Question 14

to swing back and froth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver

Answer 14

oscillate

Question 15

regretful for one’s sin or mistakes

Answer 15

penitent

Question 16

having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute

Answer 16

peremptory

Question 17

to snub; to repel, drive away

Answer 17

rebuff

Question 18

to engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection

Answer 18

reconnoiter

Question 19

a slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess

Answer 19

shambles

Question 20

occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order

Answer 20

sporadic