Vocab 10

Question 1

Prognosticate

Answer 1

Verb

-for tell or prophecize (an event in the future)

Question 2

Proletariat

Answer 2

Noun
-workers or working class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism)

-the lowest class of citizens in Ancient Rome

Question 3

Promontory

Answer 3

Noun
-a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland

-a prominence or protuberance in an organ or other structure in the body

Question 4

Promulgate

Answer 4

Verb
-promote or make widely known (an idea or cause)

-put (a law or decree) into effect by official proclamation

Question 5

Protuberant

Answer 5

Adjective

-protruding; bulging

Question 6

Prudent

Answer 6

Adjective

-acting with or showing care and thought for the future

Question 7

Quandary

Answer 7

Noun
-a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation

-a difficult situation; a practical dilemma

Question 8

Quash

Answer 8

Verb
-reject or void, especially by legal procedure

-put an end to; suppress

Question 9

Quixotic

Answer 9

Adjective

-exceedingly idealistic;unrealistic and impractical

Question 10

Raconteur

Answer 10

Noun

-a person who tell anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way

Question 11

Rancor

Answer 11

Noun

-bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing

Question 12

Raze

Answer 12

Verb

-completely destroy (a building, town, or other site)

Question 13

Recapitulate

Answer 13

Verb
-summarize and state again the main points of

-repeat (an evolutionary or other process) during development and growth

Question 14

Recluse

Answer 14

Noun
-a person who lives a solidarity life and tends to avoid other people

Adjective
-favoring a solitary life

Question 15

Recumbent

Answer 15

Adjective
-(especially of a person or human figure) lying down

• (of a bicycle) designed to be ridden lying almost flat in one’s back or sitting up with the legs stretched out in front
• (of a plant) growing close to the ground

Noun
-a recumbent bicycle

Question 16

Refute

Answer 16

Verb
-prove (a state rn or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove

• prove that (someone) is wrong
• deny or contradict (a statement or accusation)

Question 17

Remunerative

Answer 17

Adjective
-financially rewarding; lucrative

-earning a salary; paid

Question 18

Renegade

Answer 18

Noun
-a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles

-a person who behaves in a rebelliously unconventional manner

Question 19

Reprisal

Answer 19

Noun
-an act of retaliation

-the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation

Question 20

Resilient

Answer 20

Adjective
-(of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions

-(of a substance or object) able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed

Question 21

Prevaricate

Answer 21

Verb

-speak or act in an evasive way