Vocab 9

Question 1

Unrestrained by convention or propriety - taking/willing to take risk

Answer 1

Audacious

Question 2

Yielding or containing plenty - large in quantity

Answer 2

Copius

Question 3

Learned / well-educated

Answer 3

Erudite

Question 4

Understood only by a few - known by a restricted number

Answer 4

Esoteric

Question 5

Intensely jealous- extremely enthusiastic or passionate

Answer 5

Fervid

Question 6

To declare false - to oppose

Answer 6

Gainsay

Question 7

A phrase used or said so often that seems ordinary - meaningless / not sincere

Answer 7

Hackneyed

Question 8

Someone who opposes the use or worship of sacred image - one who attacks and seeks to overthrow popular or traditional ideas / institutions

Answer 8

Iconoclast

Question 9

To accuse - incriminate

Answer 9

Inculpate

Question 10

Injurious or harmful in effect - hostile / unfriendly

Answer 10

Iminical

Question 11

Having to adverse effect - lacking importance / distinction

Answer 11

Innocuous

Question 12

To treat someone as a celebrity - revered, but undeserving

Answer 12

Lionized

Question 13

One who detests or despises humans

Answer 13

Misanthrope

Question 14

To become bony - to convert into bone - to become set in a rigidly conventional pattern

Answer 14

Ossified

Question 15

A lavish or pretentious display designed to impress others

Answer 15

Ostentation

Question 16

Pointedly meaningful - concise and forcefully expressive

Answer 16

Pithy

Question 17

Matter-of-fact - straightforward - lacking imagination / spirit

Answer 17

Prosaic

Question 18

Conscientious - thorough / extremely careful

Answer 18

Scrupulous

Question 19

Inducing or tending to induce sleep - to make sleepy

Answer 19

Soporific

Question 20

A turning / twisting or rotating force

Answer 20

Torque