Vocab 4

Question 1

Allay

Answer 1

Diminish or put at rest

Question 2

Capacious

Answer 2

Having a lot of space inside, roomy

Question 3

Diurnal

Answer 3

Of or during the day

Question 4

Extricate

Answer 4

Free (of someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty

Question 5

Ignominious

Answer 5

Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 6

Mitigate

Answer 6

Make less severe, serious, or painful

Question 7

Palpitate

Answer 7

(Of the heart) beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly

Question 8

Phlegmatic

Answer 8

(Of a person) Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

Question 9

Propitious

Answer 9

Giving or indicating a good chance of success

Question 10

Prostrate

Answer 10

Lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward

Question 11

Acquiesce

Answer 11

Accept something reluctantly but without protest

Question 12

Amity

Answer 12

A friendly relationship

Question 13

Arduous

Answer 13

Involving or requiring strenuous effort

Question 14

Gestalt

Answer 14

An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts

Question 15

Inundate

Answer 15

Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with things or people to be dealt with

Question 16

Perjury

Answer 16

The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation

Question 17

Perspicuity

Answer 17

The quality of being clear and easy to understand

Question 18

Preposterous

Answer 18

Contrary to reason or common sense

Question 19

Trepidation

Answer 19

A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen

Question 20

Voluble

Answer 20

(Of a person) Talking fluently, readily, or incessantly