Vocab 3

Question 1

Nefarious

Answer 1

Acing wicked or criminal

Question 2

Absence of physical or sexual desire

Answer 2

Platonic

Question 3

Irritable or quarrelsome

Answer 3

Fractious

Question 4

Pungent

Answer 4

Sharply strong taste or smell

Question 5

Languid

Answer 5

Wear or faint from illness or fatigue

Question 6

Banter

Answer 6

Good natured or friendly teasing

Question 7

Peremptory

Answer 7

Insisting on immediate attention or obedience

Question 8

Dissipation

Answer 8

Wasting money, energy or resources

Question 9

Corpulent

Answer 9

Excessive body fat percentage

Question 10

Malevolent

Answer 10

Having or showing the wish to do evil on others

Question 11

Iconoclast

Answer 11

Destroyer of images especially religious, skeptic

Question 12

Mordant

Answer 12

Expressing harsh criticism

Question 13

Naïveté

Answer 13

Lack of experience, wisdom or judgement

Question 14

Boisterous

Answer 14

Noisy, energetic, rowdy

Question 15

Fallible

Answer 15

Capable of making mistakes

Question 16

Strong, sharp or intense

Answer 16

Acute

Question 17

Use of humor, irony, exaggeration to criticize of expose

Answer 17

Satire

Question 18

Vested

Answer 18

Fully, unconditionally granted as a legal right, benefit or privilege

Question 19

Pugnacity

Answer 19

Inclined to fight, belligerent, combative

Question 20

Setting

Answer 20

The environment where or when a story takes place

Question 21

Character

Answer 21

Qualities distinctive to an individual, place or thing, different from other places

Question 22

Soliloquy

Answer 22

When a character in a play speaks to himself alone; long speech