Vocab Week 3

Question 1

Abnegation

Answer 1

the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief

Question 2

Abrogate

Answer 2

revoke formally

Question 3

Abscond

Answer 3

run away, often taking something or somebody else along

Question 4

Accede

Answer 4

yield to another’s wish or opinion

Question 5

Accord

Answer 5

Concurrence of opinion, agreement

Question 6

Benevolent

Answer 6

showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding

Question 7

Boisterous

Answer 7

marked by exuberance and high spirits

Question 8

Bombastic

Answer 8

pompously lofty in style

Question 9

Bourgeois

Answer 9

being of the property-owning class

Question 10

Brazen

Answer 10

unrestrained by convention or propiety

Question 11

Caustic

Answer 11

capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action (drain openers)

Question 12

Cavort

Answer 12

play boisterously

Question 13

Censure

Answer 13

harsh criticism or disapproval

Question 14

Chastise

Answer 14

scold or criticize severly

Question 15

Defunct

Answer 15

no longer in force or use; inactive

Question 16

Deleterious

Answer 16

harmful to living things

Question 17

Delineate

Answer 17

represented accurately or precisely

Question 18

Elegy

Answer 18

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Question 19

Elucidate

Answer 19

make clear and comprehensible

Question 20

Fervent

Answer 20

characterized by intense emotion