Vocab list 3 and 4

Question 1

Reticent

Answer 1

Quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative

Question 2

Travail

Answer 2

Hard work; exhausting labor; agony

Question 3

Opulence

Answer 3

Wealth, luxury, or abundance

Question 4

Arduous

Answer 4

difficult, strenuous, or hard to achieve

Question 5

paltry

Answer 5

practically worthless; petty; trifling

Question 6

abduct

Answer 6

to carry off by force

Question 7

tractable

Answer 7

easily managed, taught, or controlled

Question 8

obliterate

Answer 8

to do away with or destroy; to blot out completely

Question 9

prodigious

Answer 9

extraordinary in size or amount; enormous

Question 10

haughty

Answer 10

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

Question 11

equanimity

Answer 11

evenness of mind or temper; calmness composure

Question 12

Exacerbate

Answer 12

To irritate or make bitter; to make more violent

Question 13

Gratuity

Answer 13

A tip; payment for service for which no bill is offered

Question 14

incredulous

Answer 14

Skeptical; doubtful; too extraordinary to be believed

Question 15

Loquacious

Answer 15

Talkative; chatty

Question 16

Reprehensible

Answer 16

Deserving blame; wrong

Question 17

Stringent

Answer 17

Strict; rigid; exciting

Question 18

Taciturn

Answer 18

Habitually silent; not given to conversation

Question 19

Ubiquitous

Answer 19

Present everywhere

Question 20

Vapid

Answer 20

Having lost its spirit or zest; spiritless