Vocab 2,061 - 2,080

Question 1

Gentrify

Answer 1

– verb

1) to alter to make appealing to those with more affluent tastes: Fish and chips have been gentrified.

Question 2

Alchemize

Answer 2

– verb

1) to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.

Question 3

Inscrutable

Answer 3

– adjective

1) incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable: the inscrutable depths of the ocean.

Question 4

Dispel

Answer 4

– verb

1) to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog. to dispel her fears.

Question 5

Bildungsroman

Answer 5

– noun

1) a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.

Question 6

Stoicism

Answer 6

– noun

1) conduct conforming to the precepts of the Stoics, as repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain.

Question 7

Rubble

Answer 7

– noun

1) broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.

Question 8

Admonish

Answer 8

– verb

1) to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
2) to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner: The teacher admonished him about excessive noise.

Question 9

Invigilate

Answer 9

– verb

1) to keep watch; to keep watch over students at an examination.

Question 10

Ineradicable

Answer 10

– adjective

1) not capable of being eradicated/rooted out/completely removed.

Question 11

Absolution

Answer 11

– noun

1) a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences/obligations/penalties.

Question 12

Provocateur

Answer 12

– noun

1) a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.

Question 13

Gobbledygook

Answer 13

– noun

1) language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.

Question 14

Circumlocution

Answer 14

– noun

1) a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.

Question 15

Claptrap

Answer 15

– noun

1) pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap.

Question 16

Rubbish

Answer 16

– noun

1) trash.

Question 17

Balderdash

Answer 17

– noun

1) nonsense.

Related forms
– Balderdashery, noun

Question 18

Blather

Answer 18

– noun /

1) to talk or utter foolishly: The poor thing blathered for hours about the intricacies of his psyche.

Question 19

Prima facie (pree-mah fey-shuh)

Answer 19

– adverb

1) at first appearance; at first view, before investigation,plain or clear; self-evident; obvious: The man told me that his love for her happened at prima facie, which meant it was love at first sight for him and her.

The prosecutor on the murder case presented the events of the following morning from blood stains and fingerprints that looked like prima facie against the defendant to be sentenced.

Question 20

Prostrate

Answer 20

– adjective

1) lying flat or at full length, as on the ground; submissive.