Vocab Words November 10

Question 1

renounce one’s throne; fail to fulfill or undertake

Answer 1

abdicate

Question 2

charm or enchant, sometimes in a deceptive way; help pass pleasantly

Answer 2

beguile

Question 3

involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture and sounds

Answer 3

cacophonous

Question 4

destroy or debase the moral purity of, corrupt; excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

Answer 4

debauch

Question 5

departing from an accepted standard; diverging from the normal type

Answer 5

aberrant

Question 6

a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers

Answer 6

bivouac

Question 7

a medium-length narrative pieces of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with sobs, chorus, and orchestra

Answer 7

cantata

Question 8

shedding its leaves annually; denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which shed after a time

Answer 8

deciduous

Question 9

do the opposite of; reverse; remove

Answer 9

de-

Question 10

one that performs an action

Answer 10

-ant

Question 11

instruct or improve morally or intellectually

Answer 11

edify

Question 12

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

Answer 12

facetious

Question 13

fly; an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by critisicm

Answer 13

gadfly

Question 14

looking exhausted and unwell, especially rom fatigue, worry, or suffering, caught for training as a wild adult of more than 12 months

Answer 14

haggard

Question 15

an unpleasant or harmful odor, secrution

Answer 15

effluvia

Question 16

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

Answer 16

fallow

Question 17

knobby, rough, and twisted, especially with age

Answer 17

gnarled

Question 18

acutely distressing

Answer 18

harrowing

Question 19

out of or like

Answer 19

ef-

Question 20

by way of; by means of

Answer 20

-via