Vocab 21-40

Question 1

21. BENIGN

Answer 1

(adj.) kindly; favorable; good-natured; not malignant

Question 2

22. BEQUEATH

Answer 2

(v) to leave to someone in a will; hand down

Question 3

23. BILLET-DOUX

Answer 3

(n) a love letter

Question 4

24. BIZARRE

Answer 4

(adj.) out of the ordinary; freakish; eccentric; odd

Question 5

25. BLASPHEMY

Answer 5

(n) cursing; irreverence, sacrilege

Question 6

26. BOISTEROUS

Answer 6

(adj) rough; stormy; loud; violent; lacking restraint

Question 7

27. BOGUS

Answer 7

(adj) make-believe; fake

Question 8

28. BOMBAST

Answer 8

(n) pretentious, inflated speech or writing

Question 9

29. BONA FIDE

Answer 9

(adj.) made in good faith; genuine

Question 10

30. BOUDOIR

Answer 10

(n) a woman’s dressing room, bedroom

Question 11

31. BOYCOTT

Answer 11

(v) to protest by refusing to buy/deal with

Question 12

32. BREVITY

Answer 12

(n) conciseness; right to the point

Question 13

33. BROUHAHA

Answer 13

(n) hubbub; uproar; furor

Question 14

34. BUFFOON

Answer 14

(n) a clown; comedian or laughable person

Question 15

35. BUTTRESS

Answer 15

(v.) to support or prop

Question 16

36. CAMOUFLAGE

Answer 16

(n) concealment by appearing

Question 17

37. CANDOR

Answer 17

(n) frankness; honesty

Question 18

38. CENSURE

Answer 18

(v) severely criticize; blame

Question 19

39. CHRONOLOGY

Answer 19

(n) the order or sequence of events

Question 20

40. COERCION

Answer 20

(n) use of force to get someone’s compliance