Vocab for Mulitple Choice

Question 1

auspicious

Answer 1

adj. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

Question 2

becloud

Answer 2

verb make less visible or unclear

Question 3

beguiles

Answer 3

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

Question 4

exile

Answer 4

noun the act of expelling a person from their native land; expelled from home or country by authority; voluntarily absent from home or country; verb expel from a country

Question 5

familial

Answer 5

adj. tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; relating to or having the characteristics of a family

Question 6

illegitimate

Answer 6

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful; noun the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

Question 7

innate

Answer 7

adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development; being talented through inherited qualities; not established by conditioning or learning

Question 8

manipulate

Answer 8

verb treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposes; hold something in one’s hands and move it; control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one’s advantage; influence or control shrewdly or deviously; manipulate in a fraudulent manner; fake or falsify

Question 9

prophetic

Answer 9

adj. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

Question 10

predisposition

Answer 10

noun a disposition in advance to react in a particular way; an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way; susceptibility to a pathogen

Question 11

repute

Answer 11

noun the state of being held in high esteem and honor; verb look on as or consider

Question 12

tension

Answer 12

noun the action of stretching something tight; (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body