Vocab List #4

Question 0

strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste, stlye, or appearance

Answer 0

bizarre

Question 1

to surround (as with troops) so as to prevent escape; to harass, to beset

Answer 1

beleaguer

Question 2

a defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense

Answer 2

bulwark

Question 3

a small group of highly placed people united for a secret and often sinister purpose; the plots of such a group

Answer 3

cabal

Question 4

a picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted so as to produce an absurd effect

Answer 4

caricature

Question 5

a complete and often ridiculous failure

Answer 5

fiasco

Question 6

added to for decoration or interest

Answer 6

garnished

Question 7

the air, bearing, or manner of a person, as showing character or mood

Answer 7

mien

Question 8

a roving hawker of quack medicines who mounted a bench and appealed to his audience by jokes, stories, and tricks; any charlatan or trickster

Answer 8

mountebank

Question 9

basic principles first learned about a subject

Answer 9

rudiments

Question 10

careless or negligent in habits, dres, appearance, or work; untidy

Answer 10

slovenly

Question 11

characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability; odd, freakish

Answer 11

whimsical

Question 12

a cheerful and hearty willingness

Answer 12

alacrity

Question 13

ardent desire for wealth or material possessions; covetousness

Answer 13

cupidity

Question 14

skill in using the hands or body; mental quickness

Answer 14

dexterity

Question 15

double-dealing; deceitfulness

Answer 15

duplicity

Question 16

a false or misleading idea; a deceptive or unsound argument

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fallacy

Question 17

intense happiness; something that produces happiness

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felicity

Question 18

excess in eating

Answer 18

gluttony

Question 19

unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity; lack of seriousness

Answer 19

levity

Question 20

a nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revage

Answer 20

magnanimity

Question 21

tested and confirmed virtue or uprightness

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probity

Question 22

a natural inclination or tendency

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propensity

Question 23

keenness of discernment or judgement

Answer 23

sagacity

Question 24

a pseudonym; pen name

Answer 24

nom de plume