vocab list 2

Question 1

Abet

Answer 1

Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

Question 2

Abberation

Answer 2

A state or condition markedly different from the norm

Question 3

Abhor

Answer 3

Feel hatred or disgust toward

Question 4

Benign

Answer 4

Kind in disposition or manner

Question 5

Beguile

Answer 5

Attract; cause to be enamored

Question 6

Berate

Answer 6

Censure severely or angrily

Question 7

Bereft

Answer 7

Lacking or deprived of something

Question 8

Capacious

Answer 8

Large in the amount that can be contained

Question 9

Capitulate

Answer 9

Surrender under agreed conditions

Question 10

Egregious

Answer 10

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Question 11

Fortuitous

Answer 11

Lucky; occurring by happy chance

Question 12

Fatuous

Answer 12

Devoid of intelligence

Question 13

Fallacious

Answer 13

Containing or based on incorrect information

Question 14

Effulgent

Answer 14

Radiating or as if radiating light

Question 15

Effrontery

Answer 15

Audacious behavior that you have no right to

Question 16

Efficacious

Answer 16

Giving the power to produce an intended result

Question 17

Deferential

Answer 17

Showing courteous regards for people’s feelings

Question 18

Deft

Answer 18

Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands

Question 19

Defile

Answer 19

Make dirty or spotty

Question 20

Capricious

Answer 20

Determined by chance or impulse rather than necessity