Vocab Unit 3

Question 1

Amoral

Answer 1

(adj.) lacking a sense of right or wrong; neither good nor bad.

Question 2

Anachronism

Answer 2

(n) something out of place in time or history; an incongruity.

Question 3

Chicanery

Answer 3

(n) trickery; deceitfulness; artiface, especially legal or political

Question 4

Bucolie

Answer 4

(adj.) charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike

Question 5

Deprecate

Answer 5

(v) to express disapproval of

Question 6

Docile

Answer 6

(adj.) easily taught; obedient; easy to handle

Question 7

Elusive

Answer 7

(adj.) hard to pin down; evasive

Question 8

Emulate

Answer 8

(v) to strive; to equal or excel, usually through imitation

Question 9

Facetious

Answer 9

(adj.) humorous; not serious

Question 10

Farcical

Answer 10

(adj.) absurd; ludicrous

Question 11

Beleaguer

Answer 11

(v) to surround; to besiege; to harass

Question 12

Chagrin

Answer 12

(n) humiliation; embarrassed disappointment

Question 13

Histrionic

Answer 13

(adj.) overly dramatic; theatrical

Question 14

Ignominy

Answer 14

(n) deep disgrace

Question 15

Laconic

Answer 15

(adj.) using few words, especially to the point of seeming rude

Question 16

Refute

Answer 16

(v) to prove to be false; to disprove

Question 17

Superfluous

Answer 17

(adj.) extra; unnecessary; redundant

Question 18

Temerity

Answer 18

(n) boldness; recklessness; audacity

Question 19

Urbane

Answer 19

(adj.) poised; sophisticated

Question 20

Debauchery

Answer 20

(n) wild living