Vocab 921 - 940

Question 1

Allay

Answer 1

– verb

1) to alleviate: to allay pain.

Question 2

Inveigh

Answer 2

– verb

1) to protest strongly: to inveigh against isolationism.

Question 3

Insolence

Answer 3

– noun

1) highly rude behavior or speech.

Question 4

Apogee

Answer 4

– noun

1) the highest point, zenith: the White House is considered the apogee of American achievement.

Question 5

Litigious

Answer 5

– Adjective

1) excessively or readily inclined to litigate: a litigious person.

Question 6

Tatterdemalion

Answer 6

– Adjective or Noun

1) ragged; unkempt or dilapidated: He seemed to fit to the tatterdemalion apartment.

Question 7

Legerity

Answer 7

– noun

1) physical agility or mental quickness.

Question 8

Frabjous

Answer 8

– adjective

1) wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.

Question 9

Credence

Answer 9

– noun

1) the belief in something: to give credence to a claim.

Question 10

Volitant

Answer 10

– adjective

1) engaged in or having the power of flight.

Question 11

Defenestrate

Answer 11

– verb

1) to throw (a person or thing) out of a window.

Question 12

Bafflegab

Answer 12

– noun

1) confusing or generally unintelligible jargon: an insurance policy written in bafflegab impenetrable to a lay person.

Question 13

Veridical

Answer 13

– adjective

1) truthful; veracious.

Question 14

Sang-froid

Answer 14

– noun

1) coolness of mind or calmness: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.

Question 15

Parlance

Answer 15

– noun

1) a way of speaking or vernacular: legal parlance.

Question 16

Illusory

Answer 16

– adjective

1) causing illusion; deceptive; misleading: Freedom is illusory; we are all prisoners of our need to work for a living.

Question 17

Chattel

Answer 17

– noun

1) Any moveable property.

Question 18

Peonage

Answer 18

– noun

1) the condition or service of a peon.

Question 19

Harbinger

Answer 19

– noun

1) anything that foreshadows a future event: Frost is a harbinger of winter.

Question 20

Cohere

Answer 20

– verb

1) to stick together or be united: The particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.