Vocab List 3

Question 1

avocation

Answer 1

hobby

Question 2

capricious

Answer 2

subject to whims or passing fancies

Question 3

disparity

Answer 3

inequality; difference

Question 4

efficacy

Answer 4

efficiency

Question 5

Epistle

Answer 5

letter

Question 6

inexorable

Answer 6

impossible to stop or prevent

Question 7

impetus

Answer 7

a moving force, impulse, stimulus

Question 8

moribund

Answer 8

dying

Question 9

Reticent

Answer 9

not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

Question 10

vacillate

Answer 10

to waver; to sway indecisively

Question 11

acerbic

Answer 11

biting, bitter in tone or taste

Question 12

Acrimonious

Answer 12

angry and bitter

Question 13

brusque

Answer 13

(adj.) abrupt, blunt, with no formalities

Question 14

Didactic

Answer 14

instructive

Question 15

elegiac

Answer 15

Expressing sorrow or lamentation

Question 15

elegiac

Answer 15

Expressing sorrow or lamentation

Question 16

flippant

Answer 16

(adj.) lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy

Question 17

lugubrious

Answer 17

looking or sounding sad and dismal

Question 18

pensive

Answer 18

thoughtful

Question 19

recalcitrant

Answer 19

stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Question 20

wistful

Answer 20

having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing