Vocab 5

Question 1

Alloy

Answer 1

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

Question 2

Appropriate

Answer 2

to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 3

Arrest

Answer 3

to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

Question 4

August

Answer 4

majestic, venerable

Question 5

Bent

Answer 5

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 6

Broach

Answer 6

to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

Question 7

Brook

Answer 7

to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

Question 8

Consequential

Answer 8

pompous, self-important

Question 9

Die

Answer 9

a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

Question 10

Essay

Answer 10

to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Question 11

Exact

Answer 11

to demand; to call for; to require; to take

Question 12

Fell

Answer 12

inhumanly cruel

Question 13

Flag

Answer 13

to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 14

Flip

Answer 14

sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant

Question 15

Grouse

Answer 15

to complain or grumble

Question 16

Guy

Answer 16

a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide

Question 17

Intimate

Answer 17

to imply, suggest or insiuate

Question 18

List

Answer 18

to tilt or lean to one side

Question 19

Meet (adj)

Answer 19

fitting, proper

Question 20

Mince (v)

Answer 20

to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize; to speak too carefully

Question 21

Nice (adj)

Answer 21

exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

Question 22

Obtain (adj)

Answer 22

to be established, accepted, or customary

Question 23

Occult

Answer 23

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 24

Pied

Answer 24

multicolored, usually in blotches

Question 25

Pluck

Answer 25

courage, spunk, fortitude

Question 26

Prize

Answer 26

to pry, to press or force with a lever

Question 27

Rail

Answer 27

to complain about bitterly

Question 28

Rent

Answer 28

torn (past tense of rend)

Question 29

Quail

Answer 29

to lose courage; to turn frightened

Question 30

Qualify

Answer 30

to limit

Question 31

Scurvy (adj)

Answer 31

contemptible, despicable

Question 32

SIngular

Answer 32

exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 33

Stand

Answer 33

a group of trees

Question 34

Steep

Answer 34

to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

Question 35

Strut

Answer 35

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 36

Table

Answer 36

to remove from consideration

Question 37

Tender

Answer 37

to proffer or offer

Question 38

Waffle

Answer 38

to equivocate; to change one’s opinion

Question 39

Wag

Answer 39

wit, joker