Vocab Day 2

Question 1

adulterate

Answer 1

to corrupt sth, make impure.

Question 2

advocate

Answer 2

support someone

Question 3

aggrandize

Answer 3

increasing power or wealth of sth. self-aggrandizing: someone who is trying to increase their own power

Question 4

alacrity

Answer 4

eagerness or willingness to do something

Question 5

ambivalent

Answer 5

mixed emotions about something

Question 6

ameliorate

Answer 6

make negative feelings go down

Question 7

amenable

Answer 7

someone is open to sth, open to suggestion

Question 8

anachronistic

Answer 8

something is out of time or place. imagine a movie abt something in the medieval and you see a car.

Question 9

audacious

Answer 9

very bold, even infeasible.

Question 10

avaricious

Answer 10

greedy, you want a bunch of money

Question 11

banal

Answer 11

boring, insipid, not really interesting

Question 12

benign

Answer 12

1. harmless
2. gentle person

Question 13

brazen

Answer 13

shameless, negative connotation. if someone is speaking with a brazen attitude, they are running their mouth more than they should

Question 14

calumny

Answer 14

to purposefully try to harm someone’s reputation.

Question 15

candid

Answer 15

honest, telling the trust

Question 16

castigate

Answer 16

reprimand, yell at someone if they do something bad.

Question 17

caustic

Answer 17

very bitter attitude

Question 18

construe

Answer 18

interpret something in a particular way

Question 19

contrite

Answer 19

very remorseful

Question 20

convoluted

Answer 20

very complex, very difficult to understand

Question 21

covet

Answer 21

strongly desire something

Question 22

craven

Answer 22

cowardly, avoiding conflict (negative connotation)

Question 23

decorum

Answer 23

politeness, having the correct manners

Question 24

deft

Answer 24

very skilled

Question 25

demur

Answer 25

to hesitate or to object

Question 26

derivative

Answer 26

to copy something that is based on something else. can have neutral or negative connotation.

Question 27

desiccate

Answer 27

to dry something out. remove all of the water. think of the desert.

Question 28

diatribe

Answer 28

angry rant. someone yelling at the microphone, angry at all of life’s ills.

Question 29

incredulous

Answer 29

not believable

Question 30

ingenuous

Answer 30

naive, lacking experience