Vocab List #3

Question 0

incapable of being passed through or penetrated

Answer 0

impervious

Question 1

unchangeable

Answer 1

immutable

Question 2

incapable of being appeased or pacified; inexorable

Answer 2

implacable

Question 3

lacking agreement; hence, inharmonious; unsuitable

Answer 3

incongruous

Question 4

avoiding work or exertion; habitually idle

Answer 4

indolent

Question 5

incapable of erring; unfailing

Answer 5

infallible

Question 6

physically weak or feeble

Answer 6

infirm

Question 7

not offensive or injurious; harmless

Answer 7

innocuous

Question 8

never satisfied; greedy

Answer 8

insatiate

Question 9

incapable of being searched into and understood; unintelligible

Answer 9

inscrutable

Question 10

lacking mental or moral feeling

Answer 10

insensate

Question 11

not to the purpose; does not apply

Answer 11

irrelevant

Question 12

to destroy the self-confidence of or self-possession of anyone; to make one feel inferior or ashamed

Answer 12

abash

Question 13

obstinate and unenlightened attachment to one’s own religion, party, belief, or opinion

Answer 13

bigotry

Question 14

to get one’s way by deceptive flattery or specious promises

Answer 14

cajole

Question 15

embarrassment or humiliation caused by disappointment or failure

Answer 15

chagrin

Question 16

to fraudulently appropriate money entrusted to one’s care

Answer 16

embezzle

Question 17

utterly disordered or confused

Answer 17

chaotic

Question 18

wreckage or goods found afloat after a dreadful disaster at sea

Answer 18

flotsam

Question 19

characterized by feigning to be what one is not

Answer 19

hypocritical

Question 20

a dull and trite remark solemnly stated

Answer 20

platitude

Question 21

growing or flourishing unchecked; unrestrained

Answer 21

rampant

Question 22

abstracted musing; daydreaming

Answer 22

reverie

Question 23

the art of using effective and persuasive language; the rules guiding the effective use of language; also, language characterized by artificial or ostentatious expression

Answer 23

rhetoric