Vocab test 5

Question 1

nominal

Answer 1

being such in name only; so-called; supposed

Question 2

castigate

Answer 2

criticize or reprimand

Question 3

picayune

Answer 3

of little value or account; small; trifling petty

Question 4

conflagration

Answer 4

a destructive fire usually an extensive one

Question 5

pertinactiy

Answer 5

resolute, stubborn, obstinate, persistent

Question 6

poetaster

Answer 6

an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse

Question 7

callow

Answer 7

immature inexperienced

Question 8

beatify

Answer 8

make blissfully happy

Question 9

bellicose

Answer 9

inclined or eager to fight, aggressively hostile belligerent pugnacious

Question 10

calumny

Answer 10

false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone slander, defamation

Question 11

antilogy

Answer 11

a contradiction in terms or ideas

Question 12

archetype

Answer 12

the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form, protoype

Question 13

obdurate

Answer 13

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

Question 14

venerate

Answer 14

to honor to revere

Question 15

penultimate

Answer 15

just before the final; next to ladt

Question 16

nonpareil

Answer 16

having no equal peerless

Question 17

epicurian

Answer 17

luxurious tastes or habits

Question 18

abstemiuos

Answer 18

sparing or moderate in eating and drinking ; temperate in diet characterized by abstinence