Vocab 16

Question 1

Pique (v)

Answer 1

To arouse anger or resentment; especially slighting

Question 2

Peer(v)

Answer 2

To look narrowly or curiously; especially to look carefully at something difficult to discern (make out)

Question 3

Keen (adj)

Answer 3

Having a fine edge or point

Question 4

Elementary (adj):

Answer 4

Relating to the simplest principles of something

Question 5

Deduce (v):

Answer 5

To draw a conclusion by applying a general principle

Question 6

Mastiff (n):

Answer 6

any breed of large powerful dogs used as watch dogs

Question 7

benevolence (n):

Answer 7

A disposition to do good

Question 8

Supraorbital (adj):

Answer 8

Situated above the orbit of the eye

Question 9

Parietal (adj)

Answer 9

Of the walls of a part of cavity; especially in the back of the mouth close to the skull

Question 10

Fissure (v):

Answer 10

A long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting

Question 11

Fulsome (adj):

Answer 11

Excessively complimentary

Question 12

Covet (v):

Answer 12

To wish earnestly for what belongs to another

Question 13

Asperity (n):

Answer 13

Harshness of temper

Question 14

Monograph (n):

Answer 14

A learned treatise on a particular subject

Question 15

Circumspect (adj):

Answer 15

careful to consider all circumstances

Question 16

Carouse (v):

Answer 16

To drink liquor freely

Question 17

Prosaic: (adj)

Answer 17

Belonging to the everyday world

Question 18

Moor (noun):

Answer 18

A boggy peaty area dominated by grasses

Question 19

Gig (n):

Answer 19

a light, 2-wheeled, 1 horse carriage

Question 20

Chimerical (adj):

Answer 20

Existing only in the imagination

Question 21

Wire (n):

Answer 21

Telegram

Question 22

Flippant (adj):

Answer 22

Treating lightly something serious

Question 23

Surmise (v):

Answer 23

To form an idea of from very little evidence