vocab 7

Question 1

rent

Answer 1

torn, opening or tear

Question 2

quail

Answer 2

to lose courage, to turn frightened

Question 3

qualify

Answer 3

to limit

Question 4

sap

Answer 4

to enervate;;; a fool or a nitwit

Question 5

scurvy

Answer 5

contemptible, despicable

Question 6

singular

Answer 6

exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 7

stand

Answer 7

group of trees

Question 8

strut

Answer 8

cross part of a wing

Question 9

table

Answer 9

to remove from consideration (parliamentary motion)

Question 10

tender

Answer 10

to proffer or offer

Question 11

waffle

Answer 11

to equivocate, to change ones position

Question 12

wag

Answer 12

wit, joker

Question 13

abjure

Answer 13

to renounce or reject solemnly; react, avoid

Question 14

adumbrate

Answer 14

to foreshadow vaguely, to suggest or outline sketchily

Question 15

anathema

Answer 15

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

Question 16

anodyne

Answer 16

soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 17

apogee

Answer 17

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

Question 18

apostate

Answer 18

one who abandons long held religious or political convictions

Question 19

apotheosis

Answer 19

deification; glorification to godliness; a model of excellence or perfection

Question 20

asperity

Answer 20

severity, rigor, roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritiability

Question 21

asseverate

Answer 21

to aver, allege, assert

Question 22

assiduous

Answer 22

diligent, sedulous

Question 23

augury

Answer 23

omen, portent

Question 24

bellicose

Answer 24

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Question 25

calumniate, calumny

Answer 25

to slander, aspersion

Question 26

captious

Answer 26

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

Question 27

cavil

Answer 27

to find fault without good reason

Question 28

celerity

Answer 28

speed, alacrity

Question 29

chimera

Answer 29

an illusion

Question 30

contumacious

Answer 30

insubordinate, rebellious, scorn, aspersion, contumely=insult

Question 31

debacle

Answer 31

complete failure, rout, fiasco

Question 32

denounement

Answer 32

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

Question 33

descry

Answer 33

to catch sight of

Question 34

desuetude

Answer 34

disuse

Question 35

desultory

Answer 35

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

Question 36

diaphanous

Answer 36

transparant; gauzy

Question 37

diffident

Answer 37

reserved, shy; lacking in self confidence

Question 38

dirge

Answer 38

song of grief or lamentation

Question 39

ecomium

Answer 39

glowing enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Question 40

eschew

Answer 40

to shun or avoid

Question 41

excoriate

Answer 41

to censure scathingly; to upbraid

Question 42

execrate

Answer 42

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

Question 43

exegesis

Answer 43

critical examination, explication

Question 44

expiate

Answer 44

to atone or make amends for

Question 45

extirpate

Answer 45

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

Question 46

fatuos

Answer 46

silly, foolish

Question 47

fractious

Answer 47

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable