Vocab Week 9

Question 1

cause celebre

Answer 1

(n.) any well known controversy; a famous legal case

Question 2

cavalier

Answer 2

(adj.) care free and unconcerned; free and easy; casual

Question 3

caveat

Answer 3

(n.) warning or caution

Question 4

cavil

Answer 4

(v.) to find fault unnecessarily; to raise trivial objections

Question 5

cavort

Answer 5

(v.) to bounce or prance about happily

Question 6

chameleon

Answer 6

(n.) a person of changeable habits or temperament

Question 7

chanteuse

Answer 7

(n.) a women night club singer

Question 8

charade

Answer 8

(n.) a readily preserved pretense or fiction

Question 9

charlatan

Answer 9

(n.) one who pretends to have expert skill or knowledge; a quack; and impostor; fraud

Question 10

chartreuse

Answer 10

(adj.) a pale, yellowish green

Question 11

chary

Answer 11

(adj.) very cautious, watchful

Question 12

chasm

Answer 12

(n.) a deep hole; a huge gap

Question 13

cheesy

Answer 13

(adj.) inferior, poor, cheap

Question 14

cherub

Answer 14

(n.) a child with a sweet, innocent, or chubby face

Question 15

chicanery

Answer 15

(n.) deception or trickery