Vocab 27

Question 1

Mendicant(noun)

Answer 1

A beggar, supplicant

Question 2

Meretricious (adj)

Answer 2

Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

Question 3

Minatory(adj)

Answer 3

Menacing, threatening (reminds you of the minotaur a threatening creature indeed

Question 4

Nadir(noun)

Answer 4

Low point, perigee

Question 5

Nonplussed(adj)

Answer 5

Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

Question 6

Obstreperous (adj)

Answer 6

Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

Question 7

Ossified (adj)

Answer 7

Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

Question 8

Palliate(verb)

Answer 8

To make something seem less serious, to gloss, to make less severe or intense

Question 9

Panegyric(noun)

Answer 9

Formal praise, eulogy, encomium;panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

Question 10

Parsimonious (adj)

Answer 10

Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

Question 11

Pellucid(adj)

Answer 11

Transparent, easy to understand

Question 12

Peroration (noun)

Answer 12

The concluding part of a a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

Question 13

Plangent(adj)

Answer 13

Pounding, thundering, resounding

Question 14

Prolix(adj)

Answer 14

Long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

Question 15

Propitiate(verb)

Answer 15

To appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favourable