Vocab #12

Question 1

Elegiac

Answer 1

(adj.) of, relating to, or involving mourning or expressing sorrow

Question 2

fecund

Answer 2

(adj.) Fruitful, fertile; capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work

Question 3

infirmity

Answer 3

(n.) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)

Question 4

malady

Answer 4

(n.) a sickness, illness, disease, disorder

Question 5

nuance

Answer 5

(n) a subtle difference in tone, meaning, and expression

Question 6

profligate

Answer 6

(adj.) given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral; recklessly extravagant; (n.) a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending

Question 7

remonstrance

Answer 7

(n) : a protest or complaint about something

Question 8

scintillate

Answer 8

(v.) to give off sparks; to be animated or brilliant

Question 9

terse

Answer 9

(adj.) Concise, brief and to the point (sometimes to the point of rudeness)

Question 10

vitiate

Answer 10

(v.) to impair or reduce the quality of