vocab 4

Question 1

(adj.) thoroughly skilled; (n.) an expert

Answer 1

adept

Question 2

(v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

Answer 2

aspire

Question 3

(adj.) bare, dreary, dismal

Answer 3

bleak

Question 4

(v.) to blame; scold

Answer 4

chide

Question 5

(adj.) worthy of scorn, contemptible

Answer 5

despicable

Question 6

(adi.) small, smaller than most others of the same Type

Answer 6

diminutive

Question 7

(v.) to free from slavery; to release or liberate

Answer 7

emancipate

Question 8

(adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes

Answer 8

erroneous

Question 9

(v.) to makeuse of, develop; to make improper use offor personal profit; (n.) a feat, deed

Answer 9

exploit

Question 10

(adj.) made or delivered on the spur of the moment

Answer 10

extemporaneous

Question 11

(v.) to make imperfect, damage, harm

Answer 11

impair

Question 12

(adj.) not able to be defeated, unbeatable

Answer 12

invincible

Question 13

(adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish

Answer 13

languid

Question 14

(n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; (v.) to get stuck

Answer 14

mire

Question 15

(adj.) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out

Answer 15

obtrusive

Question 16

(n.) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing

Answer 16

preamble

Question 17

(v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

Answer 17

render

Question 18

(adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

Answer 18

rugged

Question 19

(adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

Answer 19

skeptical

Question 20

(adj:) untidy ni dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

Answer 20

slipshod