Vocab List #5

Question 0

great warmth of emotion or desire

Answer 0

ardor

Question 1

any opening in a solid surface

Answer 1

aperture

Question 2

frankness of expression; straightforwardness; openness of mind

Answer 2

candor

Question 3

an occupation of a place or region, or one naturalized in a society or region (often applied to a word, animal, or plant)

Answer 3

denizen

Question 4

the face or front of aynthing; especially a deceptive false front

Answer 4

facade

Question 5

a vain, affected man foolishly preoccupied with dress or manners

Answer 5

fop

Question 6

clothing or vestments associated with an office or occasion; applied also jocularly to ordinary clothes

Answer 6

habiliments

Question 7

the holding of an office and the administering of its duties; also, the term of an office

Answer 7

incumbency

Question 8

the condition of exhaustion or fatigue; weariness

Answer 8

lassitude

Question 9

sense of injury or annoyance

Answer 9

umbrage

Question 10

an eccentric or capacious action or notion

Answer 10

vagary

Question 11

irregular change or alternation, especially of fortune or condition, manifested in human affairs

Answer 11

vicissitude

Question 12

intolerant of denial or opposition; insisting of immediate response to comments; offensively self-assured in opinion, assertion, or manner

Answer 12

peremptory

Question 13

lasting or continuing throughout the year or years, lasting thorugh a long, indefinite time

Answer 13

perennial

Question 14

done merely for the sake of getting through a duty; done without interest or zeal

Answer 14

perfunctory

Question 15

to read thoroughly or attentively; to examine thoroughly

Answer 15

peruse

Question 16

any tactic to which one resorts to avoid an issue, escape a consequence, etc.

Answer 16

subterfuge

Question 17

keen perception of fine distinctions; a fine distinction; skillfulness at deceiving others

Answer 17

subtlety

Question 18

haughtily disdainful in bearings or demeanor

Answer 18

supercilious

Question 19

one who prays or entreats humbly

Answer 19

suppliant

Question 20

more than enought; unncessary

Answer 20

superfluous

Question 21

a watch kept over a person, especially over a suspect or prisoner

Answer 21

surveillance

Question 22

surpassing others of the same kind; going beyond ordinary limits

Answer 22

transcendent

Question 23

passing away quickly, not permanant; staying for a short time

Answer 23

transient