Vocab List 4

Question 0

Prognosticate

Answer 0

vb. foretell or prophecy (an event in the future)

The economists were prognosticating financial problems.

Question 1

Prevaricate

Answer 1

vb. to speak or act in an evasive way

He seemed to prevaricate when the journalists asked pointed questions

Question 2

Proletariat

Answer 2

n. workers or working class people, regarded collectively
The growth of the industrial proletariat

Question 3

Promontory

Answer 3

n. a point of high land that juts out into a large body if water
A rocky promontory

Question 4

Promulgate

Answer 4

vb. promote or make widely known

These problems have to be promulgated within the organization.

Question 5

Protuberant

Answer 5

adj. protruding, bulging

Protuberant eyes fluttered open.

Question 6

Prudent

Answer 6

adj. acting with of showing care and thought for the future

No prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose.

Question 7

Quandary

Answer 7

n. a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation
Kate is in a quandary.

Question 8

Quash

Answer 8

vb. reject or void, put an end to

A hospital executive quashed rumors that nursing staff will lose jobs.

Question 9

Quixotic

Answer 9

adj. exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic and impractical

A vast a perhaps quixotic project.

Question 10

Raconteur

Answer 10

A person who tells anecdotes in an amusing way

Question 11

Rancor

Answer 11

n. bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing
He spoke without rancor.

Question 12

Raze

Answer 12

vb. completely destroy

Villages were razed to the ground.

Question 13

Recapitulate

Answer 13

vb. summarize and state again the main points of

He began to recapitulate his argument with care.

Question 14

Recluse

Answer 14

n. a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people

Question 15

Recumbent

Answer 15

adj. lying down (especially of a person or human figure)

Recumbent statues

Question 16

Refute

Answer 16

vb. to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove
These claims have not been convincingly refuted.

Question 17

Remunerative

Answer 17

adj. financially rewarding

Highly remunerative activities

Question 18

Renegade

Answer 18

n. a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principals

Question 19

Reprisal

Answer 19

n. an act of retaliation

The threat of reprisal.

Question 20

Resilient

Answer 20

adj. able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed; able to recover quickly
The fish was resilient to most infections.