vocab8

Question 1

gainsay

Answer 1

to deny, dispute, to contradict, to oppose

Question 2

heterodox

Answer 2

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Question 3

imbroglio

Answer 3

difficult or embarrassing situation

Question 4

indefatigable

Answer 4

not easily exhaustible; tireless

Question 5

ineluctable

Answer 5

certain, inevitable

Question 6

inimitable

Answer 6

one of a kind, peerless

Question 7

insouciant

Answer 7

unconcerned, carefree, heedless

Question 8

inveterate

Answer 8

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

Question 9

jejune

Answer 9

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

Question 10

lubricious

Answer 10

lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

Question 11

mendicant

Answer 11

a beggar, supplicant

Question 12

meretricious

Answer 12

cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy; attracting by false show

Question 13

minatory

Answer 13

menacing, threatening

Question 14

nadir

Answer 14

low point, perigee

Question 15

nonplussed

Answer 15

baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

Question 16

obstreperous

Answer 16

noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

Question 17

ossified

Answer 17

tending to become more rigid, conventional with age; literal turn to bone

Question 18

palliate

Answer 18

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less intense/severe

Question 19

panegyric

Answer 19

formal praise, eulogy, encomium

Question 20

parsimonious

Answer 20

cheap, miserly

Question 21

pellucid

Answer 21

transparent, easy to understand, limpid

Question 22

peroration

Answer 22

the concluding part of a speech; flowery

Question 23

plangent

Answer 23

pounding, thundering, resounding

Question 24

prolix

Answer 24

long winded, verbose

Question 25

propitiate

Answer 25

to appease; to conciliate

Question 26

peurile

Answer 26

childish, jejune, nugatory

Question 27

puissance

Answer 27

power, strength

Question 28

pusillanimous

Answer 28

cowardly, craven

Question 29

remonstrate

Answer 29

to protest, to object

Question 30

sagacious

Answer 30

having sound judgement; perceptive, wise

Question 31

salacious

Answer 31

lustful, lascivious, bawdy

Question 32

salutary

Answer 32

remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

Question 33

sanguine

Answer 33

cheerful, confident, optimistic

Question 34

saturnine

Answer 34

gloomy, dark, sullen , morose

Question 35

sententious

Answer 35

aphoristic, or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

Question 36

stentorian

Answer 36

extremely loud and powerful

Question 37

stygian

Answer 37

gloomy, dark

Question 38

sycophant

Answer 38

toady; servile; self seeking flatterer; parasite

Question 39

tendentious

Answer 39

biased; showing marked tendencies

Question 40

timorous

Answer 40

timid, fearful, diffident

Question 41

tyro

Answer 41

novice, greenhorn, amateur

Question 42

vitiate

Answer 42

to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

Question 43

voluble

Answer 43

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language