vocab with extra work

Question 1

propriety

Answer 1

appropriate or fitting

they questioned the propriety of decisions made by people in the court as they wanted to make sure they were appropriate

Question 2

auspicious

Answer 2

favorable or propitious

Question 3

propitious

Answer 3

synonym for “fortune”, auspicious

Question 4

rancor

Answer 4

ill will

Question 5

stymied

Answer 5

hindered

Question 6

supplanted

Answer 6

to take the place of

Question 7

prodigious

Answer 7

a large amount, to grow in size

gigi can eat a prodigious amount of kibble

think bro did you just see how much kibble gigi ate

Question 7

prodigious

Answer 7

a large amount, to grow in size

gigi can eat a prodigious amount of kibble

Question 8

attrition

Answer 8

to reduce in numbers

Question 9

diaphanous

Answer 9

sheer or see through

Question 10

sidereal

Answer 10

related to the stars

Question 11

halcyon

Answer 11

happy and carefree

Question 12

mirth

Answer 12

feeling joyful

Question 13

licentiousness

Answer 13

lacking morality

Question 14

mingcing

Answer 14

dainty behavior

Question 15

sundry

Answer 15

varied

Question 16

turbid

Answer 16

opaque

Question 17

interment

Answer 17

imprisonment

Question 18

remittance

Answer 18

sending money

Question 19

incorrigible

Answer 19

incapable of change

Question 20

peripatetic

Answer 20

moving around a great deal

think paraplegic can’t move around a lot, peripatetic can move around a lot

Question 21

lassitude

Answer 21

weary indifference

think you are lassoing someone and you can’t decide who to get

Question 22

celerity

Answer 22

swiftness

celery makes you fast

Question 23

redressed

Answer 23

to correct a wrong

Question 24

puissance

Answer 24

power or might

Question 25

ennui

Answer 25

boredom

Question 26

salient

Answer 26

significant

Question 27

seminal

Answer 27

influential or innovative

Question 28

exegesis

Answer 28

careful study of texts

Question 29

apogee

Answer 29

high point

Question 30

felicitous

Answer 30

well suited to an occasion

Question 31

harbingers

Answer 31

something that serves are a preview April showers are harbingers to may flowers

Question 32

encomiums

Answer 32

praise

Question 33

pellucid

Answer 33

clear and easily understood

Question 34

pedagogical

Answer 34

educational

Question 35

polemical

Answer 35

refers to a controversial argument

Question 36

tendentious

Answer 36

biased a judge cannot be tendentious when evaluating a verdict fairly

Question 37

sententious

Answer 37

preachy or moralistic think senator so and so is pretentious

Question 38

prodigal

Answer 38

free spending, wasteful

Question 39

desultory

Answer 39

lacking in consistency

Question 40

misappropriated

Answer 40

put funds to the wrong use

Question 41

burnished

Answer 41

to polish

Question 42

tendentious

Answer 42

showing a bias

Question 43

insouciant

Answer 43

unconcerned sue was not concerned that peter lived at home forever

Question 44

vituperation

Answer 44

verbal abuse pit viper with verbal abuse

Question 45

lassitude

Answer 45

lack of energy gigi was so sleepy i had to lasso her

Question 46

ineluctable

Answer 46

inescapable

Question 47

impassioned

Answer 47

passionate

Question 48

refulgent

Answer 48

shining brightly starts in the sky are really full of brightness

Question 49

relegated

Answer 49

demoted to an inferior position often women are relegated to an inferior position in the work place

Question 50

ramified

Answer 50

divide think ram = coming together then thing the opposite which is to divide

Question 51

rendered

Answer 51

to become

Question 52

intrepid

Answer 52

fearless, adventures an intrepid, fearless, explorer

Question 53

audacious

Answer 53

willingness to take bold risks audacious and intrepid = bold adventurous explorers