Vocab Lesson 5

Question 1

acrimony

Answer 1

n. bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility

adj. acrimonious

Question 2

affinity

Answer 2

n. attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship

Question 3

ambivalent

Answer 3

adj. having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive

n. ambivalence

Question 4

cessation

Answer 4

n. a stopping, either final or temporary

Question 5

emaciated

Answer 5

adj. very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny

Question 6

enclave

Answer 6

n. a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory

Question 7

engender

Answer 7

v. to bring into being, to produce

Question 8

exacerbate

Answer 8

v. to make more severe, bitter, or violent

Question 9

illicit

Answer 9

adj. not allowed, improper, or unlawful

Question 10

indigenous

Answer 10

adj. naturally living or growing in a certain area; native

Question 11

inexorable

Answer 11

adj. not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless

Question 12

infatuated

Answer 12

adj. filled with excessive, shalloe, or foolish love or desire

n. infatuation

Question 13

insatiable

Answer 13

adj. never satisfied; greedy

Question 14

poignant

Answer 14

adj. painfully moving, affecting, or touching

Question 15

proselytize

Answer 15

v. to persuade someone to convert to a faith, belief, or cause