Vocab 8

Question 1

Echelon

Answer 1

A step, rank, level or grade in a series or hierarchy

Question 2

Fatuous

Answer 2

Foolish or silly in a self-satisfied way

Question 3

Flabbergasted

Answer 3

Overwhelmed with surprise, shock, or amazement; dumbfounded

Question 4

Incipient

Answer 4

Beginning to exist or appear; in an early stage

Question 5

Irrefutable

Answer 5

Impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Question 6

Irrevocable

Answer 6

Impossible to undo or take back; unalterable

Question 7

Lackadaisical

Answer 7

Lacking interest or zest; half-hearted, indifferent

Question 8

Melange

Answer 8

Mixture, usually of things that don’t normally go together

Question 9

Paucity

Answer 9

Smallness in amount; scarcity, dearth

Question 10

Portend

Answer 10

To give warning, foretell, indicate in advance (like an omen)

Question 11

Prepossessing

Answer 11

Tending to create a favorable impression

Question 12

Quintessential

Answer 12

Ultimate, essential, pure; perfectly representative

Question 13

Recant

Answer 13

To formally withdraw or take back a statement or belief

Question 14

Saturnine

Answer 14

Gloomy, cold, sluggish, sullen

Question 15

Schwa

Answer 15

Unstressed vowel sound represented by e can be made by any vowel

Question 16

Surmise

Answer 16

To base or conclude based on scanty evidence

Question 17

Uxorious

Answer 17

Excessively fond or submissive toward a wife

Question 18

Viscous

Answer 18

Sticky, gummy, gooey; not runny or flowing

Question 19

Vitiate

Answer 19

To impair, spoil, make faulty

Question 20

Bellicose

Answer 20

Quarrelsome, combative, belligerent, pugnacious