vocab 4 peters

Question 1

abominate

Answer 1

to regard with intense aversion or loathing; dislike

Question 2

antithesis

Answer 2

exact opposite; contrast

Question 3

aplomb

Answer 3

assurance, poise, confidence

Question 4

charlatan

Answer 4

a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge, or skill

Question 5

convivial

Answer 5

fond of good company, social, lively, sociable

Question 6

desultory

Answer 6

passing from one thing to another in an aimless, way disconnected, disorderly, haphazard

Question 7

eclectic

Answer 7

material generated from different sources, ideas and styles

Question 8

effervescent

Answer 8

lively, highly-spirited, vivacious

Question 9

enamored

Answer 9

filled with love and desire; captivate

Question 10

evamescent

Answer 10

tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke, impression or appearance quickly fading or fleeting

Question 11

ignominious

Answer 11

shameful, disgraceful, humiliating

Question 12

ineptitude

Answer 12

unskilled, wrong in a foolish and awkward way

Question 13

insipid

Answer 13

lacking flavor, tasteless; not exciting; dull and lifeless

Question 14

juxtapose

Answer 14

placing side by side in order to compare or contrast

Question 15

machiavellian

Answer 15

elaborately cunning, scheming, deceitful, unscrupulous, trick people into what you want them to do

Question 16

moot

Answer 16

open to discussion or argument

Question 17

philistine

Answer 17

a person regarded as smugly narrow and conventional in views, tastes, lacking in or indifferent to culture

Question 18

synthesis

Answer 18

putting together of parts or elements as to form a whole, combining, merging

Question 19

urbane

Answer 19

polite and courteous in a smooth, polished way: refined and suave

Question 20

vegetate

Answer 20

to live an uneventful or monotonous life, to spend time lazily or passively