Vocab

Question 0

Rationalize

Answer 0

To attribute one’s own actions to rational and credible motives, without an adequate analysis of the true and usually unconscious motives

Question 1

Vicarious

Answer 1

Enjoyed by one person through his sympathetic but indirect participation in the experience of another person; substitution all

Question 2

Gregarious

Answer 2

Preferring the company of others to solitude

Question 3

Obsequious

Answer 3

Servilely attentive; fawning

Question 4

Maudlin

Answer 4

Tearfully or excessively sentimental

Question 5

Ascetic

Answer 5

Practicing extreme self-denial

Question 6

Pander

Answer 6

To cater to basic needs

Question 7

Sublimate

Answer 7

To direct energy from its primitive and destructive aim to one that is culturally or ethically higher and therefore socially acceptable

Question 8

Wanton

Answer 8

Unchaste; lewd; licentious; marked by arrogant recklessness of justice, of the feelings of others, or the like; also, having no just provocation; willfully malicious

Question 9

Effete

Answer 9

Spent; exhausted; barren of energy; worn out by rich or effortless existence