Vocab 4

Question 1

Perfunctory

Answer 1

Acting with indifference

Question 2

Tantalize

Answer 2

To torment with the site of something desired but out of reach

Question 3

Pragmatic

Answer 3

Dealing or concerns with facts or actual occurrences

Question 4

Zuegma

Answer 4

I’ll construction in which a single word is applied to two or more announce when it sense is appropriate to only one of them

Question 5

Laconic

Answer 5

Using few words

Question 6

Salient

Answer 6

Of notable significance prominent

Question 7

Pithy

Answer 7

Precisely meaningful brief forceful and meaningful in expression

Question 8

Pandemonium

Answer 8

A very noisy place wild uproar or unrestrained disorder

Question 9

Quixotic

Answer 9

Cut up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals

Question 10

Stigma

Answer 10

A small mark a scar or birthmark a mark of disgrace or infamy

Question 11

Pejorative

Answer 11

Tending to make or become worse, belittling

Question 12

Impede

Answer 12

To obstruct retard interfere with or slow the progress of

Question 13

Garrulous

Answer 13

Passively talkative in a rambling roundabout manner

Question 14

Herculean

Answer 14

Requiring the great strength of a Hercules

Question 15

Appellation

Answer 15

I name title or designation, the act of naming

Question 16

Cynical

Answer 16

Negative or pessimistic

Question 17

Galvanize

Answer 17

To stimulate or shock by or as if by electric current

Question 18

Expedite

Answer 18

Two free from entanglements

Question 19

Disquietude

Answer 19

Worried unease, anxiety

Question 20

Bowdlerize

Answer 20

To edit by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable

Question 21

Bower

Answer 21

A shaded, leafy recess

Question 22

Ostracize

Answer 22

To exclude by general consent from a group

Question 23

Lethargy

Answer 23

Abnormal drowsiness

Question 24

Aver

Answer 24

To affirm positively as true

Question 25

Dilatory

Answer 25

Tending to delay procrastinate or postpone

Question 26

Stoic

Answer 26

One who is seemingly in difference to or unaffected by Joy grief pleasure or pain

Question 27

Pander

Answer 27

To act as a go-between or liaison and amorous intrigues

Question 28

infernal

Answer 28

Of or relating to a lower world of the dead

Question 29

Scintillating

Answer 29

Brilliantly clever

Question 30

Insouciant

Answer 30

Lighthearted and unconcerned