Vocab

Question 0

Detriment

Answer 0

Injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage. Antonym- advantage

Question 1

Ameliorate

Answer 1

Make better; improve. Antonym- worsen.

Question 2

Folly

Answer 2

Lack of good sense, foolish action or undertaking. Antonym- worsen

Question 3

Impediment

Answer 3

Something that hinders of obstructs. Antonym- aid

Question 4

Indolent

Answer 4

Disposed to avoid exertion, lazy, idle.

Question 5

Parsimonious

Answer 5

Unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy.

Question 6

Reticent

Answer 6

Inclined to be silent of secretive, uncommunicative.

Question 7

Retort

Answer 7

Answer, reply sharply or with anger.

Question 8

Subvert

Answer 8

Overturn or overthrow from the foundation, undermine

Question 9

Tractable

Answer 9

Easily led, taught, or controlled; yielding; docile.

Question 10

Ebullient

Answer 10

Overflowing with enthusiasm, exuberant.

Question 11

Exhort

Answer 11

Arouse by words, advise strongly.

Question 12

Gall

Answer 12

Make sore, irritate mentally, annoy.

Question 13

Indemnify

Answer 13

Compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay

Question 14

Inane

Answer 14

Lacking significance or sense; pointless

Question 15

Peruse

Answer 15

Read; look at fairly attentively; study.

Question 16

Abhorrent

Answer 16

In conflict, utterly opposed, loathsome, repugnant.

Question 17

Admonish

Answer 17

Reprove gently but seriously; warn of a fault; caution.

Question 18

Ephemeral

Answer 18

Lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory, short lived

Question 19

Gullible

Answer 19

Easily deceived or cheated

Question 20

Unwittingly

Answer 20

Unintentionally, by accident

Question 21

Acquit

Answer 21

Pronounce not guilty, discharge

Question 22

Consign

Answer 22

Transfer, give, deliver, as if by signing over, handover, commit.

Question 23

Effrontery

Answer 23

Shameless boldness, insolence, gall.

Question 24

Forbearance

Answer 24

Act of refraining, abstaining; leniency; patience.

Question 25

Prodigious

Answer 25

Extraordinary in amount or size, enormous, gigantic.

Question 26

Salutary

Answer 26

Favorable to health, healthful, curative; beneficial.

Question 27

Scrutinize

Answer 27

Examine very closely, inspect.

Question 28

Supersede

Answer 28

Force out of use, displace, supplant, replace.

Question 29

Unwieldy

Answer 29

Hard to handle because of size or weight, unmanageable, bulky.