Vocab List 10

Question 1

Obscure

Answer 1

Relatively unknown

Question 2

Suppressed

Answer 2

Kept from being circulated

Question 3

Ostentatious

Answer 3

Describing a show or pretentious display

Question 4

Frenetic

Answer 4

Wildly excited or active

Question 5

Paradigm

Answer 5

An example or model

Question 6

Didactic

Answer 6

Intended to instruct

Question 7

Discourse

Answer 7

Verbal expression of exchange, conversation

Question 8

Integrity

Answer 8

Trustworthiness

Question 9

Haughty

Answer 9

Arrogant, vainly proud

Question 10

Quandary

Answer 10

A state of uncertainty or perplexity

Question 11

Poignant

Answer 11

Touching, profoundly moving

Question 12

Gratuitous

Answer 12

Given freely, unearned

Question 13

Benign

Answer 13

Kind and gentle

Question 14

Stratagem

Answer 14

A clever trick used to deceive or outwit

Question 15

Equivocate

Answer 15

To avoid making a definite statement, being evasive

Question 16

Theoretical

Answer 16

Lacking practical application

Question 17

Solvent

Answer 17

Able to pay one’s debt

Question 18

Pragmatic

Answer 18

Practical

Question 19

Arbitrary

Answer 19

Determined by impulse rather than reason

Question 20

Obstinate

Answer 20

Stubbornly given into an opinion or course of action

Question 21

Patronizing

Answer 21

Treating in a condescending manner

Question 22

Reclamation

Answer 22

The act of making something useful again

Question 23

Wary

Answer 23

Watchful