Vocab24

Question 1

Adjure(verb)

Answer 1

To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

Adumbrate (verb)

Answer 2

To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

Question 3

Anathema (noun)

Answer 3

A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Question 4

Anodyne (adj)/(noun)

Answer 4

Soothing ; something that assuges or allays pain or comforts

Question 5

Apogee(noun)

Answer 5

farthest or highest point; culmination ; zenith

Question 6

Apostate(noun)

Answer 6

One who abondons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 7

Apotheosis(noun)

Answer 7

Deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

Question 8

Asperity(noun)

Answer 8

Severity , rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

Question 9

Asseverate(verb)

Answer 9

To aver, allege, or assert

Question 10

Assiduous(adj)

Answer 10

Diligent, hard-working , sedulous

Question 11

Augury(noun)

Answer 11

Omen, portent

Question 12

Bellicose(adj)

Answer 12

Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Question 13

Calumniate(verb)

Answer 13

To slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

Question 14

Captious(adj)

Answer 14

Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

Question 15

Cavil(verb)

Answer 15

To find fault without good reason