Vocab 2

Question 1

Stagnation

Answer 1

a state or condition marked by a lack of flow, movement or development

Question 2

Exacerbate

Answer 2

To make more violent, bitter, or severe

Question 3

Culminate

Answer 3

to reach the highest or a climactic or decisive point

Question 4

Ameliorate

Answer 4

To make bitter or tolerable

Question 5

Dissuade

Answer 5

To advise a person against something

Question 6

Attainment

Answer 6

The act of reaching an end or obtaining something

Question 7

Angst

Answer 7

A feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity

Question 8

Atrophy

Answer 8

A wasting away or decline

Question 9

Intractable

Answer 9

not easily governed, managed or directed

Question 10

Foster

Answer 10

To Promote Growth or development of

Question 11

Windfall

Answer 11

an unexpected, un earned, or sudden gain of advantage

Question 12

Panacea

Answer 12

A remedy for all ills or difficulties

Question 13

Deleterious

Answer 13

Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Question 14

Derive

Answer 14

To infer or deduce

Question 15

Transient

Answer 15

Passing especially quickly into and out of existence

Question 16

Inestimable

Answer 16

incapable of being estimated of computed

Question 17

abdicate

Answer 17

to cast off or discard

Question 18

Redress

Answer 18

Compensation for wrong or loss

Question 19

Magnanimity

Answer 19

Loftiness in spirit enabling one to bear troubles calmly m, to disdain meanness and pettiness and to display a noble generosity

Question 20

rectitude

Answer 20

moral integrity or righteousness