vocab week 8

Question 1

cordial

Answer 1

• warm and friendly
• strongly felt
• liquor, usually a sweeter drink

Question 2

coup

Answer 2

• a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government.
• a notable or successful stroke or move.
• an act of touching an armed enemy in battle as a deed of bravery,

Question 3

Criterion

Answer 3

• a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.

Question 4

Cryptic

Answer 4

• having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.
• (of coloration or markings) serving to camouflage an animal in its natural environment.

Question 5

Curtail

Answer 5

• reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.

Question 6

Debunk

Answer 6

• expose the falseness or hollowness of (a myth, idea, or belief).
• reduce the inflated reputation of (someone), especially by ridicule.

Question 7

Decorous

Answer 7

• in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.

Question 8

Decry

Answer 8

• publicly denounce.

Question 9

Delegate

Answer 9

• a person representing others
• entrusting a task to another

Question 10

deleterious

Answer 10

causing harm/damage

Question 11

demure

Answer 11

reserved, modest, shy

Question 12

derivative

Answer 12

• disapprovingly imitating the art of another
• influenced by
• something based on another source
• something thats value depends on an underlying asset.

Question 13

euphemism (figure of speech)

Answer 13

a milder word/expression replacing one considered to be too harsh

ex: passed away instead of died