vocab 7

Question 1

assiduous

Answer 1

hard working; marked by care

Question 2

autocrat

Answer 2

a cruel dictator

Question 3

autonomous

Answer 3

(of persons) free from external control and constraint; not controlled by outside forces

Question 4

belligerent

Answer 4

engaged in war; someone who figjts

Question 5

bombastic

Answer 5

marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means; ostentatiously in style

Question 6

conciliatory

Answer 6

intended or likely to overcome animosity or hostility; intended to gain goodwill or reduce hostility

Question 7

conscientious

Answer 7

Extreme care and great effort; guided by with conscience or sense of right and wrond

Question 8

consolidte

Answer 8

make firm or secure; bring together into a single whole/syste,; unite;

Question 9

coterie

Answer 9

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

Question 10

cursory

Answer 10

hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

Question 11

exacerbate

Answer 11

exasperate; make worse; irritate

Question 12

fervent

Answer 12

extremely hot; characterized by intense emotion

Question 13

flippant

Answer 13

Lacking proper respect; levity

Question 14

gregarious

Answer 14

sociable; enjoying compnay of others; (animals) tending to form a group with same species

Question 15

harbinger

Answer 15

An indication of the approach of something or someone; foreshadow; sign; indicator

Question 16

indifferent

Answer 16

lack of concern

Question 17

indigent

Answer 17

poor enough to need help from others

Question 18

lethargic

Answer 18

sleep inducing; not alert; inactive

Question 19

magnanimous

Answer 19

generous and understand and tolerant; noble

Question 20

moribund

Answer 20

being on the point of death; not growing or changing; without force or vitality

Question 21

munificent

Answer 21

very generous

Question 22

parasitic

Answer 22

of plants or persons’ having the nature or habits of a parasite or ;eech; living off anotjer

Question 23

pompous

Answer 23

affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.
“a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything”

Question 24

protozoan

Answer 24

any of diverse minute or unicellular organisms usually non-photosynthetic

Question 25

sanctum

Answer 25

a place of absolute privacy; a sacred place of pilgrimage

Question 26

scanty

Answer 26

lacked in quality/amount; short underpants for women/children

Question 27

soporific

Answer 27

sleep inducing; inducing mental letharcy; makes you sleepy

Question 28

tentative

Answer 28

under terms not final or agreed upon; unsettled in mind or opinion; not certain

Question 29

truculent

Answer 29

defiantly aggresive; eager to fight back