vocab list #4

Question 1

abject

Answer 1

miserable
ex: abject poverty

Question 2

aesthetic

Answer 2

characterized by appreciation of beauty or good tastes

Question 3

alacrity

Answer 3

liveliness and eagerness
ex: allegro; someone with alacrity shows cheerfulness and eager behavior

Question 3

auspicious

Answer 3

good luck/divine omen
ex: an auspicious beginning for the campaign

Question 3

blatant

Answer 3

completely obvious
ex: blatant lie

Question 3

conjecture

Answer 3

hypothesis/guess
ex: he made a conjecture

Question 3

cursory

Answer 3

without attention to detail
ex: they were so busy they only gave me a cursory glance

Question 3

capitulate

Answer 3

surrender
ex: the boyfriend capitulated to his girlfriend’s desires

Question 4

decorous

Answer 4

of good taste
ex: my decorous great-aunt always brings her LV bag

Question 4

cogent

Answer 4

powerfully persuasive
ex: a cogent argument

Question 4

diffident

Answer 4

modesty, shy, lack self-confidence
ex: shy person has a diffident manner

Question 4

docile

Answer 4

easily handled/managed/tame
ex: a docile student is willing to be taught

Question 5

disdain

Answer 5

lack of respect/intense dislike
ex: he spoke of resentment and disdain

Question 6

ecstatic

Answer 6

extreme delight

Question 7

facade

Answer 7

the front of a building/a fake front people put up emotionally
ex: he put up a facade in front of his parents