Vocab diagnostic mock

Question 1

Disdainful

Answer 1

showing contempt or lack of respect.

Question 2

Placate

Answer 2

make some less angry or hostile

Question 3

Testy

Answer 3

easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered

Question 4

Ornery

Answer 4

bad tempered or difficult to deal with

Question 5

Petulant

Answer 5

(of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered

Question 6

Fretful

Answer 6

feeling or expressing distress or irritation

Question 7

Dour

Answer 7

relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

Question 8

Callous

Answer 8

showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

Question 9

Conniving

Answer 9

cooperating secretly, especially with harmful or evil intent; conspiring

Question 10

Unscrupulous

Answer 10

having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair

Question 11

Implacable

Answer 11

unable to be appeased or placated

Question 12

Resolute

Answer 12

admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering

Question 13

Cow(ed)

Answer 13

cause (someone) to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation

Question 14

Caustic

Answer 14

sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

Question 15

Maudlin

Answer 15

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental

Question 16

Forlorn

Answer 16

pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

Question 17

Equanimous

Answer 17

calm and composed

Question 18

Culpable

Answer 18

deserving of blame

Question 19

Intransigent

Answer 19

unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something

Question 20

Chastised

Answer 20

rebuke or reprimand severely.(stern disapproval)