Vocab 6

Question 1

Abjure

Answer 1

to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

Adumbrate

Answer 2

to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

Question 3

Anathema

Answer 3

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Question 4

Anodyne

Answer 4

soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 5

Apogee

Answer 5

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

Question 6

Apostate

Answer 6

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 7

Apotheosis

Answer 7

deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

Question 8

Asperity

Answer 8

severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

Question 9

Asseverate

Answer 9

to aver, allege, or assert

Question 10

Assiduous

Answer 10

diligent, hard-working, sedulous

Question 11

Augury

Answer 11

omen, portent

Question 12

Bellicose

Answer 12

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Question 13

Calumniate

Answer 13

to slander, to make a false accusation

Question 14

Captious

Answer 14

disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

Question 15

Cavil

Answer 15

to find fault without good reason

Question 16

Celerity

Answer 16

speed, alacrity

Question 17

Cimera

Answer 17

an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

Question 18

Contumacious

Answer 18

insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

Question 19

Denouement

Answer 19

an outcome or solution; the unraveling or a plot

Question 20

Descry

Answer 20

to discriminate or discern

Question 21

Desuetude

Answer 21

disuse

Question 22

Desultory

Answer 22

random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

Question 23

Diaphanous

Answer 23

transparent, gauzy

Question 24

Diffident

Answer 24

reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

Question 25

Dirge

Answer 25

a song of grief or lamentation

Question 26

Encomium

Answer 26

glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Question 27

Excoriate

Answer 27

to censure scathingly, to upbraid

Question 28

Execrate

Answer 28

to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

Question 29

Exegesis

Answer 29

critical examination, explication

Question 30

Expiate

Answer 30

to atone or make amends for

Question 31

Extirpate

Answer 31

to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

Question 32

Fatuous

Answer 32

silly, inanely foolish

Question 33

Fractious

Answer 33

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

Question 34

Gainsay

Answer 34

to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

Question 35

Heterodox

Answer 35

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Question 36

Imbroglio

Answer 36

difficult or embarrassing situation

Question 37

Indefatigable

Answer 37

nor easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

Question 38

Ineluctable

Answer 38

certain, inevitable

Question 39

Inimitable

Answer 39

one or a kind, peerless

Question 40

Insouciant

Answer 40

unconcerned, carefree, heedless

Question 41

Inveterate

Answer 41

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

Question 42

Jejune

Answer 42

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

Question 43

Lubricious

Answer 43

lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

Question 44

Mendicant

Answer 44

a beggar, supplicant

Question 45

Meretricious

Answer 45

cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

Question 46

Minatory

Answer 46

menacing, threatening (Like a minotaur)

Question 47

Nadir

Answer 47

low point, perigee

Question 48

Nonplussed

Answer 48

baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think.

Question 49

Obstreperous

Answer 49

Noisily ans stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

Question 50

Ossified

Answer 50

tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned to bone