Vocab 1a

Question 1

Inchoate

Answer 1

(Adj) Incipient (in initial stages, beginning to happen), still developing or incomplete

(Adj) Imperfectly formed, incoherent or lacking order

“Because our store has just recently opened, we are inchoate and are not offering all of our services yet”

Question 2

Besiege

Answer 2

(V) attack, overwhelm, crowd in on or surround

“The barbarians tried to besiege the castle, only to find its defenses were quite strong”

Question 3

Amalgamate

Answer 3

(V) to mix, merge, or combine into a whole

“Alexander has planned to amalgamate the former rulers of the world with his Macedonians but then he died”

Question 4

Effrontery

Answer 4

(N) insolence, boldness, or presumption

“He had the effrontery to accuse me of lying”

Question 5

Rarefy

Answer 5

(V) to make it become thin, less compact, or less dense

(V) to purify, refine, or make more spiritual

“The chemo may rarefy a person’s hair and cause baldness”

Question 6

Diatribe

Answer 6

(N) bitter, abusive criticism or denunciation

“His diatribe against the president was quite harsh and caused more anger with everyone in the room”

Question 7

Precipitate

Answer 7

(V) to throw, or fall down headlong
(V) to bring about or cause to happen, abruptly or prematurely
(V) to cause a substance to separate from solution and condense
(Adj) speeding headlong, rapidly, or dangerously
(Adj) occurring abruptly or unexpectedly
(Adj) steep or rushing steeply downward

Question 8

Disabuse

Answer 8

(V) to free someone from a misconception or deception, to make aware of the truth

“It is a teacher’s job to disabuse students of the notion they can be successful without an education”