Vocab Unit 4

Question 1

Otiosity

Answer 1

N - Futility or a lazy person.

Question 2

Comely

Answer 2

A - pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion.

Question 3

Surreptitious

Answer 3

A - kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

Question 4

Assuage

Answer 4

V - to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses), satisfy (an appetite or desire).

Question 5

Aggrandize

Answer 5

V - to make great or greater, to enhance the power, wealth, position, or reputation of.

Question 6

Lassitude

Answer 6

N - a condition characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit.

Question 7

Remunerate

Answer 7

V - to pay an equivalent for.

Question 8

Sinecure

Answer 8

N - a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.

Question 9

Indubitable

Answer 9

A - too evident to be doubted.

Question 10

Discursive

Answer 10

A - digressing from subject to subject.

Question 11

Indolence

Answer 11

N - inclination to laziness

Question 12

Prescience

Answer 12

N - foreknowledge of events.

Question 13

Refulgent

Answer 13

A - radiant or resplendent in quality or state

Question 14

Axiomatic

Answer 14

A - taken for granted.

Question 15

Bastion

Answer 15

N - an institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities.

Question 16

Malapropism

Answer 16

N - the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase.

Question 17

Profundity

Answer 17

N - something profound or abstruse.

Question 18

Verbose

Answer 18

A - containing more words than necessary.

Question 19

Supercilious

Answer 19

A - coolly and patronizingly haughty

Question 20

Phlegmatic

Answer 20

A - (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.