Vocab Review 1/15/17

Question 1

Implement

Answer 1

tool, instrument, or utensil sued to carry out tasks

Question 2

Compound

Answer 2

a fenced or walled-in area containing a group of buildings

Question 3

Impede

Answer 3

to hinder; to interfere with or slow the progress of

Question 4

Itinerant

Answer 4

traveling from place to place

Question 5

Indignantly

Answer 5

quality of being filled with a dignified anger; aroused by unfair or mean actions or comments

Question 6

Distend

Answer 6

swell or cause to swell

Question 7

Hack

Answer 7

to use blows to cut in an irregular or unskillful manner

Question 8

Keening

Answer 8

wail in grief for a dead person

Question 9

Assailant

Answer 9

attacker

Question 10

Retort

Answer 10

to reply in kind especially with anger or a witty or insulting response

Question 11

Tawdry

Answer 11

showy but cheap and poor of quality

Question 12

Canting

Answer 12

talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something

Question 13

Benighted

Answer 13

in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity

Question 14

Deign

Answer 14

do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity

Question 15

Heathen

Answer 15

a person who does not belong to a widely held as regarded by those who do

Question 16

Beguile

Answer 16

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

Question 17

Galore

Answer 17

in abundance

Question 18

Juxtapose

Answer 18

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Question 19

Reverie

Answer 19

a state of being pleasantly lost in ones thoughts; a daydream

Question 20

Nuance

Answer 20

a subtle difference in or shade of meaning expression or sound

Question 21

Infinitesimal

Answer 21

extremely small

Question 22

Provisionally

Answer 22

subject to further confirmation; for the time being

Question 23

Disintegration

Answer 23

the process of losing cohesion or strength

Question 24

Reproachfully

Answer 24

expressing disapproval or disappointment

Question 25

Ineluctable

Answer 25

unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

Question 26

Precariously

Answer 26

not securely held or in position, dangerously likely to fall or collapse

Question 27

Permissible

Answer 27

permitted; allowed

Question 28

Exploitation

Answer 28

the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work

Question 29

Swath

Answer 29

a broad strip or area of something (i.e. grass, grain, or any other crop before it’s farmed)