Vocab 781 - 800

Question 1

Decolletage

Answer 1

– noun

1) a low-cut neckline or a woman’s garment with a low neck

Question 2

Odontoid

Answer 2

– adjective

1) of or resembling a tooth.

Question 3

Repertoire

Answer 3

– noun

1) the entire stock of skills, techniques, or devices used in a particular field or occupation: a magician’s repertoire.

Question 4

Pearlescent

Answer 4

– adjective

1) having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.

Question 5

Baleful

Answer 5

– adjective

1) pernicious.

Question 6

Efficacy

Answer 6

– noun

1) capacity for producing a desired result or effect: a remedy of great efficacy.

Question 7

Slubber

Answer 7

– verb

1) to perform hastily or carelessly.

Question 8

Crapehanger

Answer 8

– adjective

1) a pessimist.

Question 9

Sinistral

Answer 9

– adjective

1) Left-handed or pertaining to the left side.

Question 10

Comeuppance

Answer 10

– noun

1) a deserved & unpleasant outcome: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior.

Question 11

Hoyden

Answer 11

– noun

1) a boisterous girl.

Question 12

Boisterous

Answer 12

– adjective

1) rowdy: the sound of boisterous laughter.

Question 13

Indict (in-dayt)

Answer 13

– verb

1) to charge with an offense or crime; accuse of wrongdoing; castigate; criticize: The grand jury indicted him for murder.

Question 14

Faux pas

Answer 14

– noun, plural faux

1) an embarrassing social blunder.

Question 15

Sophistry

Answer 15

– noun, plural sophistries.

1) a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning. a false argument.

Question 16

Sophisticate

Answer 16

– noun

1) a sophisticated person.

Question 17

Beleaguered

Answer 17

– verb

1) to be surrounded with troubles or by opposing military forces.

Question 18

Overture

Answer 18

– noun

1) an opening proposal, offer or move of some kind: overtures of peace. a shy man who rarely made overtures of friendship.

Question 19

Nostomania

Answer 19

– noun

1) an irresistible compulsion to return home.

Question 20

Frigorific

Answer 20

– adjective

1) causing or producing cold.