Vocab 29

Question 1

A follower of something such as a leader, party, philosophy, or profession

Answer 1

Adherent

Question 2

A coming or arrival

Answer 2

Advent

Question 3

A hole or hiding place used to store supplies

Answer 3

Cache

Question 4

Pertaining to the sky or heavens

Answer 4

Celestial

Question 5

Things that are inevitable or certain, certainties

Answer 5

Certitudes

Question 6

To voice disapproval, to scold

Answer 6

Chide

Question 7

To move together

Answer 7

Converge

Question 8

An authoritative statement, decree

Answer 8

Dictum

Question 9

A pouring forth (usually overdone in writing or speech)

Answer 9

Effusion

Question 10

Demanding, requiring great care

Answer 10

Exacting

Question 11

To remove by cutting

Answer 11

Excise

Question 12

Having an offensive smell, malodorous

Answer 12

Fetid

Question 13

To give shelter or refuge

Answer 13

Harbor

Question 14

Not able to be penetrated, unable to be passed through

Answer 14

Impermeable

Question 15

Beginning to come into being, the early stage of something

Answer 15

Incipient

Question 16

Without money, broke

Answer 16

Insolvent

Question 17

To discard or to cast off, many times relates to spacecraft

Answer 17

Jettison

Question 18

To thrust out, to thrust forward

Answer 18

Obtrude

Question 19

Dilemma

Answer 19

Quandary

Question 20

Penitent; characterized by showing repentance or contrition

Answer 20

Repentant

Question 21

Healthful, favorable to one’s well being

Answer 21

Salubrious

Question 22

To waste

Answer 22

Squander

Question 23

A doctrine or principle held as being true

Answer 23

Tenet

Question 24

To give official sanction

Answer 24

Validate

Question 25

A distance view seen through an opening

Answer 25

Vista

Answer 26

Valuing biodiversity is essential for the long-term health and sustainability of our planet