Vocab 4: P-T

Question 1

Saccharine (adj)

Answer 1

Sugary sweet, exaggeratedly sweet

Cloyingly sweet

Question 2

Rudimentary (adj)

Answer 2

Unfinished or immature

Question 3

Sanguine (adj)

Answer 3

cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident.

A sanguine personality

Question 4

prosaic (adj)

Answer 4

dull or commonplace; matter-of-fact; ordinary.

Question 5

pedestrian (adj)

Answer 5

unimaginative, commonplace; prosaic or dull

Question 6

pertinacious (adj)

Answer 6

stubborn, obstinate; objectionably persistent; resolute.

Question 7

petulant (adj)

Answer 7

moved to or showing sudden impatient irritation over some small annoyance.

Question 8

pragmatic (adj)

Answer 8

practical; of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations;

Question 9

postulate (v)

Answer 9

to ask, demand or claim;

to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted

Question 10

plebiscite (n)

Answer 10

a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.

Question 11

penurious (adj)

Answer 11

extremely stingy, miserly; extremely poor, destitute; lacking in means or resources.

Question 12

renege (v)

Answer 12

to go back on one’s word.

reneged on

Question 13

rapacious (adj)

Answer 13

inordinately greedy; predatory

Question 14

renegade (n)

Answer 14

someone who deserts a party or cause for another; a traitor

Question 15

rebuff (v)

Answer 15

a blunt of abrupt rejection; snub; a preemptory refusal of a request or offer;
a check to progress.

Question 16

rococo (adj)

Answer 16

architectural style that is delicate and elegant but ornate;

ornate in speech or literary style

Question 17

recidivism (n)

Answer 17

repeated relapse, as into a crime;

chronic tendency towards repetitive criminal/ antisocial behavior patterns

Question 18

reticent (adj)

Answer 18

reserved; reluctant or restrained

Question 19

soporific (adj)

Answer 19

sleep inducing; sleepy; drowsy

Question 20

tally (v)

Answer 20

to record or register; to count; to correspond or agree.

(n) anything on which a score is kept;

Question 21

truculent (adj)

Answer 21

fierce, cruel, savagely brutal; scathing; aggressively hostile or belligerent.

Question 22

transcendent (adj)

Answer 22

surpassing, exceeding, going beyond ordinary limits; superior; outside consciousness