Vocab 8

Question 1

Venerate

Answer 1

To respect deeply

Question 2

Veracity

Answer 2

Truthfulness, honesty

Question 3

Volatile

Answer 3

Easily aroused or changeable

Question 4

Salubrious

Answer 4

Promoting health or well being

Question 5

Sanguine

Answer 5

Cheerful; optimistic

Question 6

Sporific

Answer 6

Sleep inducing

Question 7

Specious

Answer 7

Valid but lacking real merit

Question 8

Stolid

Answer 8

Not easily moved mentally or emotionally; unresponsive

Question 9

Substantiate

Answer 9

Establish by evidence, prove

Question 10

Supplant

Answer 10

To take place of, supercede

Question 11

Tacit

Answer 11

Understood or implied without being stated

Question 12

Philanthropy

Answer 12

Charity

Question 13

Placate

Answer 13

To appease, soothe, pacify

Question 14

Pragmatic

Answer 14

Practical as opposed to being idealistic

Question 15

Prevaricate

Answer 15

To lie or deviate from the truth

Question 16

Recalcitrant

Answer 16

Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Question 17

Repudiate

Answer 17

To disown, reject, or deny the validity of

Question 18

Reticent

Answer 18

Silent; reserved

Question 19

Onerous

Answer 19

Burdensome; heavy; hard to endure

Question 20

Opaque

Answer 20

Not clear or lucid; dense, stupid

Question 21

Ostentatious

Answer 21

Marked by pretentious display, showy

Question 22

Paradox

Answer 22

A statement that seems self contradictory but in reality expressed a possible truth