Vocab 3,021 - 3,040

Question 1

Coherent

Answer 1

– adjective

1) logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.

Question 2

Gambit

Answer 2

– noun

1) any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.

Question 3

Stevedore

Answer 3

– noun

1) a person employed, or a contractor engaged, at a dock to load and unload cargo from ships.

Question 4

Fealty

Answer 4

– noun

1) the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal.

Question 5

Insurgent

Answer 5

– adjective

1) surging or rushing in: The insurgent waves battered the shore.

Question 6

Expository

Answer 6

– adjective

1) serving to expound or explain: an expository essay; expository writing.

Question 7

Aforementioned

Answer 7

– adjective

1) cited or mentioned earlier or previously.

Question 8

Derange

Answer 8

– verb

1) to throw into disorder; disarrange.

Question 9

Craven

Answer 9

– adjective

1) cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.

Question 10

Touché

Answer 10

– exclamation

1) used as an acknowledgment during a discussion of a good or clever point made at one’s expense by another person.

Question 11

Concoct

Answer 11

– verb

1) to devise/make up/contrive: to concoct an excuse.

Question 12

Irrepressible

Answer 12

– adjective

1) incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable: irrepressible laughter.

Question 13

Delinquent

Answer 13

– adjective

1) failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.

Question 14

Endevour

Answer 14

– noun / verb

1) an enterprise or undertaking: a political endeavor.
2) try hard to do or achieve something: he’s endeavoring to help the Third World.

Question 15

Bailiwick

Answer 15

– noun

1) a person’s area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work:
to confine suggestions to one’s own bailiwick.

Question 16

Inauspicious

Answer 16

– adjective

1) boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.

Related forms
inauspiciously, adverb
inauspiciousness, noun

Question 17

Auspicious

Answer 17

– adjective

1) promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

Question 18

Edification

Answer 18

– noun

1) moral improvement or guidance.

Question 19

Invariable

Answer 19

– adjective

1) not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant.

Question 20

Relegate

Answer 20

– verb

1) to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.