Vocab day 8-1

Question 1

ambience

Answer 1

atmosphere; mood; feeling

Question 2

amorphous

Answer 2

shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; blob like

Question 3

apartheid

Answer 3

the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa

Question 4

ascendancy

Answer 4

supremacy; domination

Question 5

assess

Answer 5

to evaluate; to estimate; to appraise

Question 6

affluent

Answer 6

rich; prosperous

Question 7

anomaly

Answer 7

an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation

Question 8

arrant

Answer 8

utter; unmitigated; very bad; what arrant nonsense!s

Question 9

banal

Answer 9

unoriginal; ordinary

Question 10

baleful

Answer 10

menacing; threatening

Question 11

commiserate

Answer 11

to express sorrow or sympathy

Question 12

complacent

Answer 12

self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault

Question 13

complicity

Answer 13

participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice

Question 14

competent

Answer 14

capable; qualified

Question 15

contrite

Answer 15

admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful; a broken and a contrite heart

Question 16

disclaim

Answer 16

to deny any claim to; to renounce

Question 17

disconcert

Answer 17

to upset; to ruffle; to perturb

Question 18

discrepancy

Answer 18

difference; inconsistency

Question 19

dismay

Answer 19

to fill with dread; to discourage greatly; to perturb

Question 20

exonerate

Answer 20

to free completely from blame; to exculpate

Question 21

extol

Answer 21

to praise highly; to laud

Question 22

extricate

Answer 22

to free from difficulty

Question 23

fortuitous

Answer 23

accidental; occurring by chance

Question 24

founder

Answer 24

to fail; to collapse; to sink

Question 25

gambit

Answer 25

a scheme to gain an advantage; a ploy

Question 26

homogeneous

Answer 26

uniform; made entirely of one thing

Question 27

infer

Answer 27

to conclude; to deduce

Question 28

ingenuous

Answer 28

frank; without deception; simple; artless; charmingly naive

Question 29

inordinate

Answer 29

excessive; unreasonable

Question 30

inherent

Answer 30

part of the essential nature of something; intrinsic

Question 31

inviolate

Answer 31

free from injury; pure

Question 32

iridescent

Answer 32

displaying glowing; changing colors

Question 33

lethargy

Answer 33

sluggishness; laziness; drowsiness

Question 34

mellifluous

Answer 34

sweetly flowing

Question 35

mendacious

Answer 35

lying; dishonest

Question 36

nuance

Answer 36

a subtle difference or distinction

Question 37

ominous

Answer 37

threatening; menacing; portending doom

Question 38

postulate

Answer 38

something accepted as true without proof; an axiom

Question 39

pragmatic

Answer 39

practical; down to earth; based on experience rather than theory

Question 40

proficient

Answer 40

thoroughly competent; skillful; very good (at something)

Question 41

precedent

Answer 41

an earlier example or model of something

Question 42

rapacious

Answer 42

greedy; plundering; avaricious

Question 43

redress

Answer 43

to remedy; to make amends for; the power to redress the grievances of our citizens

Question 44

refractory

Answer 44

disobedient and hard to manage; resisting treatment

Question 45

regime

Answer 45

a governing power; a system of government; a period during which a government is in power

Question 46

replicate

Answer 46

to reproduce exactly; to duplicate; to repeat

Question 47

transgress

Answer 47

to violate (a law); to sin

Question 48

transient

Answer 48

not staying for a long time; temporary; a transient cold spell

Question 49

uncanny

Answer 49

extraordinary; unimaginable; seemingly supernatural

Question 50

underlying

Answer 50

basic; fundamental; only noticeable under scrutiny