Vocab List 1- French-Related Words

Question 1

to make greater, richer, more powerful

to exaggerate

Answer 1

aggrandize

Question 2

lacking freshness or originality; commonplace, ordinary

Answer 2

banal

Question 3

trickery, especially in legal dealings; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate

Answer 3

chicanery

Question 4

to indicate

Answer 4

denote

Question 5

one who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss

Answer 5

entrepreneur

Question 6

an inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped

anything irrationally reverenced; obsession

Answer 6

fetish

Question 7

hatefully bad or wicked; abominable

Answer 7

heinous

Question 8

thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things

Answer 8

pensive

Question 9

to evoke resentment in

to arouse

Answer 9

pique

Question 10

expressing sorrow; mournful

Answer 10

plaintive

Question 11

forceful and effective; keen, penetrating

Answer 11

trenchant

Question 12

green with growing plants or grass; green in color

unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated

Answer 12

verdant