Vocab List #7: The Bluest Eye

Question 0

Foible

Answer 0

(n) A minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect
The weaker part of a sword blade.

Question 1

Void

Answer 1

(adj) Having no legal fore or effect. Useless. Empty
(n) An Empty space; emptiness. Something experienced as a loss or privation
(v-with object) Invalidate; to empty, discharge; evacuate; To clear To depart from

Question 2

Complicity

Answer 2

(n) The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing

Question 3

Immutable

Answer 3

(adj) not mutable; unchangeable; changeless

Question 4

Plaintive

Answer 4

(adj) Expressing sorrow of melancholy; mournful

Question 5

Patent

Answer 5

Readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious.

Question 6

Malaise

Answer 6

(n) A condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease. A vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness

Question 7

Foist

Answer 7

(v-with object) to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably. To bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously.

Question 8

Elicit

Answer 8

(v-with object) To draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke

Question 9

Contrive

Answer 9

(v-with object) To plan with ingenuity; devise; invent

to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme or the like; manage.

Question 10

Sullen

Answer 10

(adj) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.

Question 11

Abhorrent

Answer 11

(adj) Causing repugnance; detestable; loathsome;

Something really disliked

Question 12

Depravity

Answer 12

(n) The state of being depraved.

(adj) corrupt, wicked, or perverted.

Question 13

Covert

Answer 13

(adj) Concealed; secret; disguised. Covered, sheltered.

(n) a covering; a shelter or hiding place. Concealment or disguise.

Question 14

Petulant

Answer 14

(adj) Moved to or showing suddent, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance

Question 15

Placid

Answer 15

(adj) Pleasantly calm or peaceful

Question 16

Satiate

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(v-with object) to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary. To satisfy to the full

Question 17

Surreptitious

Answer 17

(adj) Obtained, done, made by stealth; secret or unauthorized.
Acting in a stealthy way.

Question 18

Relish

Answer 18

(v-with object) To take pleasure in; like; enjoy.
To make pleasing to the taste; To like the taste of
(v-w/o object) to have taste or flavor. To be agreeable