Vocab 2

Question 0

despondent

Answer 0

melancholy, gloomy

Question 1

sardonic

Answer 1

characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical

Question 2

upbraid

Answer 2

to find fault with or reproach severely; censure

Question 3

incipient

Answer 3

beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage

Question 4

propensity

Answer 4

a natural inclination or tendency

Question 5

acme

Answer 5

the highest point; summit; peak

Question 6

paraphernalia

Answer 6

equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity

Question 7

anomaly

Answer 7

a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form

Question 8

bedlam

Answer 8

a scene or state of wild uproar

Question 9

impertinent

Answer 9

intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil. not pertinent or relevant; irrelevant

Question 10

alacrity

Answer 10

cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness. liveliness; briskness

Question 11

ennui

Answer 11

a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom

Question 12

nonplus

Answer 12

to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely

Question 13

conspicuous

Answer 13

easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable, attracting special attention, as by outstanding qualities or eccentricities

Question 14

languid

Answer 14

lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow, lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent. drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint

Question 15

veritable

Answer 15

being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary. being truly or very much so

Question 16

sojourn

Answer 16

a temporary stay: to stay for a time in a place, to stay temporarily

Question 17

ingenuous

Answer 17

free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere. artless; innocent; naive.Obsolete. honorable or noble.