Vocab 7

Question 1

Palliate

Answer 1

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

Question 2

Panegyric

Answer 2

formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

Question 3

Parsimonious

Answer 3

cheap, miserly

Question 4

Pellucid

Answer 4

transparent, easy to understand, limpid

Question 5

Peroration

Answer 5

the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

Question 6

Plagent

Answer 6

pounding, thundering, resounding

Question 7

Prolix

Answer 7

long-winded, verbose. Prolixity means verbosity

Question 8

Propitiate

Answer 8

to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

Question 9

Puerile

Answer 9

childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

Question 10

Puissance

Answer 10

power, strength; pussiant means powerful, strong

Question 11

Pusillanimous

Answer 11

cowardly, craven

Question 12

Remonstrate

Answer 12

to protest, to object

Question 13

Sagacious

Answer 13

having sound judgement; perceptive, wise; like a sage

Question 14

Salacious

Answer 14

lustful, lascivious, bawdy

Question 15

Salutary

Answer 15

remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

Question 16

Sanguine

Answer 16

cheerful, confident, optimistic

Question 17

Saturnine

Answer 17

gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

Question 18

Sententious

Answer 18

aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

Question 19

Stentorian

Answer 19

extremely loud and powerful

Question 20

Stygian

Answer 20

gloomy, dark

Question 21

Syncophant

Answer 21

toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

Question 22

Tendentious

Answer 22

biased; showing marked tendencies

Question 23

Timorous

Answer 23

timid, fearful, diffident

Question 24

Tyro

Answer 24

novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

Question 25

Vitiate

Answer 25

to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

Question 26

Voluble

Answer 26

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

Question 27

Masticate

Answer 27

to chew

Question 28

Gauche

Answer 28

lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated or socially awkward

Question 29

Limpid

Answer 29

(liquid) free of anything that darken, completely clear

Question 30

Teratoid

Answer 30

an abnormal form or development; malformed

Question 31

Bonny

Answer 31

attractive; beautiful

Question 32

Capricious

Answer 32

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

Question 33

Propriety

Answer 33

the state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

Question 34

Doughty

Answer 34

brave and persistent

Question 35

Retrench

Answer 35

reduce spending and costs in response to economic difficulty

Question 36

Sophistry

Answer 36

the use of fallacious arguments, especially when deceiving

Question 37

Coruscating

Answer 37

flashing, sparkling

Question 38

Preternatural

Answer 38

beyond what is normal or natural

Question 39

Teleological

Answer 39

exhibiting or relating to design, especially in regards to nature

Question 40

Consonant

Answer 40

characterized by harmony

Question 41

Cadge

Answer 41

v: ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled to) n: a padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the fields

Question 42

Allay

Answer 42

diminish or put to rest (fear, suspicion, or worry)

Question 43

Monocoque

Answer 43

A structure design where the frame and the body are built as a single integrated structure

Question 44

Pavonine

Answer 44

Of or resembling a peacock (colors, iridescence)

Question 45

Cauterized

Answer 45

to make insensible

Question 46

Nugatory

Answer 46

of no value or importance