vocab 8-9

Question 0

auspicious

Answer 0

favorable; conductive to success, giving a sign of future success.

Question 1

audacity

Answer 1

the willingness to take bold risks; daringness.

Question 2

consecrate

Answer 2

to make or claim to be sacred; to dedicate to a divine purpose.

Question 3

credible

Answer 3

convincing; able to be (easily) believed; capable of persuading people that something will happen.

Question 4

enumerate

Answer 4

mention (a number of things) one by one; establish a number of.

Question 5

gratuitous

Answer 5

distributed freely; give or done free of charge.

Question 6

imbibe

Answer 6

to absorb or take in (often ideas or knowledge); to drink (alcohol).

Question 7

inauspicious

Answer 7

not conductive to success; unpromising; unlucky; unfavorable.

Question 8

pompous

Answer 8

irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important; characterized by pomp or splendor; bombastic.

Question 9

sedulous

Answer 9

extremely diligent, showing dedication, accomplished with painstaking care and attention.

Question 10

endow

Answer 10

give income or property to (a person or institution). establish something by donating the funds needed to maintain it.

Question 11

enmity

Answer 11

the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something; absolute hatred.

Question 12

fervent

Answer 12

displaying a passionate intensity; ardent

Question 13

obviates

Answer 13

makes unnecessary, prevents as a result of anticipating; to remove.

Question 14

opaque

Answer 14

not able to be seen through; not transparent; difficult to comprehend or understand.

Question 15

palpable

Answer 15

tangible; able to be felt; easily noticeable; plain to see; (especially of a feeling or an atmosphere) so intense as to be almost touched or felt.

Question 16

propensity

Answer 16

natural inclination to behave in a certain way; preference.

Question 17

remonstrate

Answer 17

make forcefully reproachful protest; to make objections.

Question 18

tome

Answer 18

a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one.

Question 19

wan

Answer 19

pale; giving the impression or illness or exhaustion.