vocab 7

Question 1

accolade

Answer 1

an award or merit granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgement of merit

Question 2

amenable

Answer 2

open and responsive to suggestion, easily persuaded or controlled

Question 3

antiquated

Answer 3

old fashioned or outdated

Question 4

ascetic

Answer 4

a person who practices severe self discipline and abstention

Question 5

charlatan

Answer 5

a person falsely claiming to have a special skill, a fraud

Question 6

clandestine

Answer 6

kept secret or done secretively

Question 7

derision

Answer 7

contemptuous ridicule or mockery

Question 8

despotic

Answer 8

tyrannical, autocratic, totalitarian

Question 9

diffidence

Answer 9

modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self confidence

Question 10

effervescent

Answer 10

lively and enthusiastic

fizzy

Question 11

forbearance

Answer 11

patient self control, restraint and tolerance

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken seriously

Question 13

insularity

Answer 13

ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside of one’s experiences

Question 14

languid

Answer 14

having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort

relaxed

weak from illness

Question 15

litigious

Answer 15

prone to sue other people or companies

Question 16

oblique

Answer 16

not parallel or at a right angle, slanted

Question 17

obsequious

Answer 17

obedient or attentive to a servile degree

eager to please others

Question 18

poignant

Answer 18

evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

pungent in taste or smell

Question 19

scrupulous

Answer 19

diligent, thorough, attentive to detail

Question 20

paradoxical

Answer 20

seemingly absurd or self contradictory