vocab 3

Question 1

Debilitate

Answer 1

v. to weaken

Question 2

Ebb

Answer 2

v. to decline

Question 3

Embroil

Answer 3

v. to involve in a quarrel

Question 4

Fallacy

Answer 4

n. false idea; mistaken belief

Question 5

Impartial

Answer 5

adj. fair; just; showing no favoritism

Question 6

Inscrutable

Answer 6

adj. so mysterious that it cannot be understood

Question 7

Lethargic

Answer 7

adj. drowsy; dull; sluggish; indifferent

Question 8

Sobriety

Answer 8

n. seriousness, gravity or solemnity; absence of alcoholic intoxication

Question 9

Tactless

Answer 9

adj. not having or showing a sense of what to do or say

Question 10

Trepidation

Answer 10

n. a trembling, apprehension; a state of alarm and dread

Question 11

Alienate

Answer 11

v. to turn away to normal feelings of fondness toward anyone; to estrange

Question 12

Arduous

Answer 12

adj. hard to do; strenuous

Question 13

Chimerical

Answer 13

adj. absurd; wildly fanciful

Question 14

Colloquial

Answer 14

adj. conversational; used in informal speech or writing

Question 15

Disdain

Answer 15

n. a feeling of contempt for anything that is regarded as unworthy; scorn