Vocab 16

Question 1

Extremely intricate or complicated

Answer 1

Byzantine

Question 2

A waterfall or anything resembling one

Answer 2

Cascade

Question 3

A difficult, bad tempered person

Answer 3

Curmudgeon

Question 4

A large imposing building

Answer 4

Edifice

Question 5

To reason with someone or to warn

Answer 5

Expostulate

Question 6

Disrespectful, saucy

Answer 6

Flippant

Question 7

Belligerent, mean spirited

Answer 7

Jingoism

Question 8

To make something perpetual

Answer 8

Perpetuate

Question 9

Fake medicine

Answer 9

Placebo

Question 10

A line or file

Answer 10

Queue

Question 11

To take the place of

Answer 11

Supersade

Question 12

An inheritance, especially from the father

Answer 12

Patrimony

Question 13

To add on to something

Answer 13

Appendage

Question 14

A name or title

Answer 14

Apellation

Question 15

A small inexpensive ornament

Answer 15

Bauble

Question 16

The United States department of state employs a large _________ department, because the boundaries of the worlds countries are constantly changing maps bust constantly be updated and redrawn

Answer 16

Cartography

Question 17

Vince’s success as a writer was made all the more _________ to him by the failure of his closest rival

Answer 17

Delectable

Question 18

Arnold’s review of Normal Mailer’s are book rapidly turned into a _________ against Mailer’s writing

Answer 18

Diatribe

Question 19

The children were excited to open their Christmas presents, but within a few hours an air of _________ had settled on the house, and the children were sprawled on the living room floor, wishing vaguely that they had something interesting to do

Answer 19

Ennui

Question 20

Why does everyone talk about the _________ day of youth? Most kids I know don’t exactly live in serene, carefree lives

Answer 20

Halcyon

Question 21

I love deer in the wild, but when they get into my backyard I can’t help thinking of them as _________

Answer 21

Interlopers

Question 22

Even her husband’s _________ nature was evident in the grin that was almost always on her face

Answer 22

Jocular

Question 23

The reporter’a _________ questions about the national deficit unhinged the White House spokesman, after stumbling through a halfhearted response, he declared the press conference over

Answer 23

Trenchant

Question 24

I rapidly lost my thirst as I watched the water ooze from the tap in a _________, brownish stream

Answer 24

Viscous

Question 25

Its interesting to see how Americans always assume the _________ changes automatically with the arrival of a new decade. The eighties were alleged the decade of greed; then, on the first day of 1990, greed supposedly went out of style, the old fashioned niceness became the order of the day

Answer 25

Zeitgeist

Question 26

Crows are my least favorite bird in the early morning; their _________ cawing wakes me, and I can't get any sleep

Answer 26

Raucous

Question 27

I tried to pay for the little mint that was on my hotel pillow, but the concierge explained to me that it was _________

Answer 27

Graits

Question 28

That's very _________ reasoning, Olivia. The fact roses are red and blood is red does not mean roses contain blood

Answer 28

Specious

Question 29

Mary's father was incredibly _________. He once grounded her for typing too loudly at night

Answer 29

Punitive

Question 30

There was a _________ within the organization one fashioned believed they should hold monthly meetings on the weeknight, the other believed they should be help on a weekday

Answer 30

Schism