Vocab Week 6

Question 1

Adulation

Answer 1

exaggerated flattery or praise

Question 2

Affable

Answer 2

diffusing warmth and friendliness

Question 3

Affinity

Answer 3

a natural attraction or feeling of kinship

Question 4

Affront

Answer 4

a deliberately offensive act

Question 5

Aggrandize

Answer 5

embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of

Question 6

Alacrity

Answer 6

liveliness and eagerness

Question 7

Commendation

Answer 7

an official award given as formal public statement

Question 8

Compunction

Answer 8

a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed

Question 9

Conciliatory

Answer 9

making or willing to make concessions. things that make other people less angry

Question 10

Concord

Answer 10

a harmonious state of things and of their properties

Question 11

Despondent

Answer 11

without or almost without hope

Question 12

Disparage

Answer 12

express a negative opinion of

Question 13

Disparate

Answer 13

fundamentally different of distinct in quality or kind

Question 14

Dissipate

Answer 14

cause to separate and go in different directions

Question 15

Enmity

Answer 15

a state of deep-seated ill-will. intense hostility

Question 16

Erudite

Answer 16

having or showing profound knowledge

Question 17

Esoteric

Answer 17

understandable only by an enlightened inner circle

Question 18

Evanescent

Answer 18

short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear

Question 19

Extol

Answer 19

praise, glorify, or honor

Question 20

Fraught

Answer 20

filled with or attended with