Vocab List 5

Question 1

Fervent, Ardent, Ardor

Answer 1

Passionate, glowing; Characterized by strong enthusiasm; Great intensity; passion; strong enthusiasm

Question 2

Perpetual

Answer 2

Never ending, eternal

Question 3

requisite

Answer 3

Required; a necessity

Question 4

inuring

Answer 4

To become used to something undesirable by prolonged subjection

Question 5

capitulated

Answer 5

Surrender on terms or conditions

Question 6

paroxysm

Answer 6

A spasm, it or sudden outburst

Question 7

pittance

Answer 7

Very small amount; a trifling

Question 8

disconsolate

Answer 8

Hopelessly sad

Question 9

penury

Answer 9

Very great poverty

Question 10

infidels

Answer 10

With religion or belief; an atheist

Question 11

predilection

Answer 11

Preference; partiality

Question 12

chimerical

Answer 12

Illusionary, fanciful, dreamlike

Question 13

imbued

Answer 13

Filled with ideas, feelings

Question 14

impediments

Answer 14

Hindrance; block

Question 15

repined

Answer 15

Express discontent

Question 16

averred

Answer 16

To declare in a positive, formal way

Question 17

progeny

Answer 17

Children, descendants, offspring

Question 18

immutable

Answer 18

Not susceptible to change

Question 19

imprudence

Answer 19

unwise

Question 20

prognosticated

Answer 20

To predict on the basis of present indications

Question 21

deferred

Answer 21

To put off, delay, postpone

Question 22

reprobate

Answer 22

Morally unprincipled person

Question 23

recapitulation

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The act of being repeated; summarized

Question 24

panegyric

Answer 24

Speech filled with praise, compliments

Question 25

pedant

Answer 25

One who flaunts learning

Question 26

abstruse

Answer 26

Difficult to understand

Question 27

facile

Answer 27

Achieved with little effort

Question 28

incipient

Answer 28

Just beginning, early stage