Vocab 6

Question 1

Forbidding

Answer 1

Looking dangerous, threatening, disagreeable, repellent

Question 2

Inane

Answer 2

Foolish, silly, lacking sense or meaning

Question 3

Inure

Answer 3

To become accustomed to something difficult, painful, etc.

Question 4

Anarchy

Answer 4

The complete absence of government, political disorder or violence, disorder in any activity

Question 5

Enminity

Answer 5

Hostility, antagonism, hatred; the bitter feelings of an enemy

Question 6

Sinecure

Answer 6

Any office position that brings profit or advantage without involving much work or responsibility

Question 7

Tacit

Answer 7

Not expressed or declared openly, but implied or understood

Question 8

Inveigle

Answer 8

To trick into doing something, to lead on with deception

Question 9

Anachronism

Answer 9

Anything that is or seems to be out of is proper time in history

Question 10

Avarice

Answer 10

Too great a desire to have wealth; gree for riches

Question 11

Condone

Answer 11

To excuse, forgive, or pardon; to overlook an offense

Question 12

Hackneyed

Answer 12

Made trite and commonplace by overuse; stale

Question 13

Imperative

Answer 13

Required; absolutely necessary; compulsory

Question 14

Mundane

Answer 14

Wordly, (as distinguished from heavenly); commonplace

Question 15

Placid

Answer 15

Calm; peaceful; undisturbed

Question 16

Spurious

Answer 16

Not genuine or true; lacking in authenticity; fake

Question 17

Stealthy

Answer 17

Marked by secrecy or concealment; furtive; sly

Question 18

Urbane

Answer 18

Refined; polite and courteous in a smooth, polished way; suave

Question 19

Pariah

Answer 19

A social outcast; one who is despised by society

Question 20

Desecrate

Answer 20

To violate the sacredness of something; to profane; to treat as if not sacred