Vocab Quiz 4

Question 1

motif

Answer 1

a repeating word or of phrase that signifies the theme

Question 2

incarnadine

Answer 2

a bright crimson or pinkish-red color (n) or color (something) a bright crimson or pinkish-red (v)

Question 3

beguile

Answer 3

to lead by deception; to mislead or delude

Question 4

equivocator or equivocate

Answer 4

a person who uses ambiguous language to conceal the truth or avoid commitment (n) or to weasel or waffle out of the truth (v)

Question 5

compunction

Answer 5

anxiety raising from awareness of guilt; compunction of conscience

Question 6

rancor

Answer 6

(n) bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing; enmity, hatred, malice, animosity

Question 7

augur (ah-gr)

Answer 7

(n) one held to farewell events by omens; a diviner of forecaster of the future; a “seer”
or (v) to portend a good or bad outcome; to give promise of

Question 8

berate

Answer 8

(v) to rebuke angrily or violently; often abusive scolding

Question 9

dissemble

Answer 9

(v) conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs; pretend or deceive

Question 10

pernicious

Answer 10

(adj) having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

Question 11

ineluctable

Answer 11

(adj) not to be avoided, changed, or resisted; certain

Question 12

perturbation

Answer 12

(n) an unhappy or worried mental state; anxiety; a disturbance of the equilibrium; uneasiness

Question 13

clamorous

Answer 13

offensively loud; tumultuous; nosily insistent; shrill, dissonant