Vocab List 7

Question 1

Acuity

Answer 1

keeness of perception: (Good at being perceptive)

Question 2

Adroit

Answer 2

Showing skill, cleverness, and recourcefulness in situations

Question 3

Blasphemy

Answer 3

Acting insulting/ having lack of reverence to a deity.

Question 4

Chagrin

Answer 4

Uneaseaness/ anxiety caused by humilation, disapointment or failure.

Question 5

Denigrate

Answer 5

attack reputation: deny the importance or validity of something

Question 6

Encroach

Answer 6

To enter gradually stealthily into something that belongs to someone else’s: ( advance beyond limits)

Question 7

Foment

Answer 7

Promoting growth/development

Question 8

Impute

Answer 8

Laying responisbility or blame on somthing falsely or not deserving of it.

Question 9

Maverick

Answer 9

Independent person who prefers individuality over a group.

Question 10

Milieu

Answer 10

Physical/ social setting where something happens or develops: environment

Question 11

Onerous

Answer 11

involving; imposing or burdensome; troublesome (hard to deal with)

Question 12

pernicious

Answer 12

very injurous/destructive; deadly/wicked

Question 13

reprobate

Answer 13

unprincipled person depraved-wicked immoral; scoundral

Question 14

scurrilous

Answer 14

using coarse language; vulgar; evil

Question 15

Untenable

Answer 15

unable to be defended or justified

Question 16

verismilitude

Answer 16

state of appearance of truth/ seeming probable.