Vocab Lesson 13 & 14

Question 1

Esoteric

Answer 1

understood by only a select few

Question 2

Eulogy

Answer 2

high praise for a deceased person

Question 3

Euphemism

Answer 3

Use of an indirect expression in place of one that is harsh

Question 4

Evanescent

Answer 4

Gradually disappearing, fleeting

Question 5

Exacerbate

Answer 5

To make a situation worse, to irritate

Question 6

Exemplary

Answer 6

Serving as a model

Question 7

Expedient

Answer 7

Useful, advantageous, based on self interest

Question 8

Expedite

Answer 8

To make easy and quick, to speed up

Question 9

Expunge

Answer 9

To erase, to remove completely

Question 10

Extol

Answer 10

To praise highly

Question 11

Facilitate

Answer 11

To make easy , to help bring about

Question 12

Fallacy

Answer 12

false idea, mistaken belief

Question 13

Fastidious

Answer 13

Hard to please, dainty in taste

Question 14

Fervor

Answer 14

intense emotion, great warmth of feeling

Question 15

Fitful

Answer 15

Spasmodic, intermittent

Question 16

Flagrant

Answer 16

Outrageous, glaringly offensive

Question 17

Fledgeling

Answer 17

Newly developed, little known

Question 18

Forlorn

Answer 18

deserted, left alone and neglected, unhappy

Question 19

Formidable

Answer 19

hard to overcome, to be dreaded

Question 20

Fortuitous

Answer 20

Happening by chance