Vocab Lessons 3-4

Question 1

reticent

Answer 1

quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative (adj)

Question 2

travail

Answer 2

hard work; exhausting labor; agony (noun)

Question 3

opulence

Answer 3

wealth, luxury, or abundance (noun)

Question 4

arduous

Answer 4

difficult, strenuous, or hard to achieve (adj)

Question 5

paltry

Answer 5

practically worthless; petty; trifling (adj)

Question 6

abduct

Answer 6

to carry off by force (verb)

Question 7

tractable

Answer 7

easily managed, taught, or controlled (adj)

Question 8

obliterate

Answer 8

to do away with or destroy; to blot out completely (verb)

Question 9

prodigious

Answer 9

extraordinary in size or amount; enormous (adj)

Question 10

haughty

Answer 10

having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others (adj)

Question 11

equanimity

Answer 11

Evenness of mind or temper; calmness; composure (noun)

Question 12

exacerbate

Answer 12

To irritate or make bitter; to make more violent (verb)

Question 13

gratuity

Answer 13

A tip; payment for service for which no bill is offered (noun)

Question 14

incredulous

Answer 14

Skeptical; doubtful; too extraordinary to be believed (adj)

Question 15

loquacious

Answer 15

Talkative; chatty (adj)

Question 16

reprehensible

Answer 16

Deserving blame; wrong (adj)

Question 17

stringent

Answer 17

Strict; rigid; exacting (adj)

Question 18

taciturn

Answer 18

Habitually silent; not given to conversation (adj)

Question 19

ubiquitous

Answer 19

Present everywhere (adj)

Question 20

vapid

Answer 20

Having lost its spirit or zest; spiritless (adj)