Vocab Test 3

Question 1

Obsequious

Answer 1

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Question 2

Loquacious

Answer 2

very talkative

Question 3

Imbroglio

Answer 3

difficult or embarrassing situation

Question 4

Ignominious

Answer 4

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 5

Harangue

Answer 5

A lengthy and aggressive speech

Question 6

Neophyte

Answer 6

novice; beginner

Question 7

Pejorative

Answer 7

having a negative effect; insulting

Question 8

Pestilential

Answer 8

filled with disease; contagiuos

Question 9

Grandiloquent

Answer 9

using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others

Question 10

Extemporaneous

Answer 10

improvised; done without preparation

Question 11

Denizen

Answer 11

an occupant; inhabitant

Question 12

Ameliorate

Answer 12

to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming

Question 13

onerous

Answer 13

a task duty or responsibility involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome.

Question 14

colloquial

Answer 14

used in ordinary or familiar language not formal

Question 15

effulgence

Answer 15

the quality of being bright and sending out lights

Question 16

incipient

Answer 16

the initial stage beginning to develop or happen

Question 17

inexorable

Answer 17

impossible to stop or prevent

Question 18

magnanimous

Answer 18

very generous or forgiving especially towards a rival or someone less powerful than themselves