Vocab20

Question 1

Terse(adj)

Answer 1

Brief and concise in wording

Question 2

Tout(verb)

Answer 2

To publicly praise or promote

Question 3

Trenchant(adj)

Answer 3

Sharply perceptive; keen;penetrating

Question 4

Unfeigned(adj)

Answer 4

Genuine; not false or hypocritical

Question 5

Untenable(adj)

Answer 5

Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable

Question 6

Vacillate(verb)

Answer 6

To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another

Question 7

Variegated (adj)

Answer 7

Multicoloured; characterised by a veriety of patches of different colour

Question 8

Vexation (noun)

Answer 8

Annoyance; irritation(ver: vex)

Question 9

Vigilant(adj)

Answer 9

Alterly watchful (noun: vigilance)

Question 10

Vituperate (verb)

Answer 10

To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusively; to berate

Question 11

Volatile (adj)

Answer 11

Readily changing to vapour; changeable; ficle; explosive(noun: volatility)

Question 12

Alloy(verb)

Answer 12

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

Question 13

Appropriate ( verb)

Answer 13

To take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 14

Arrest, arresting(verb)/adj

Answer 14

To suspend ; to engage; holding one’ attention: as in an arresting portrait

Question 15

August(adj)

Answer 15

Majestic, venerable