Vocabulary #1

Question 1

Abdicate

Answer 1

To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner

Question 2

Acquiescence

Answer 2

The act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance

Question 3

Acrimonious

Answer 3

Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time

Question 5

Audacious

Answer 5

Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

Question 6

Baccalaureate

Answer 6

A religious service held at an educational institution, usually on the Sunday before commencement day

Question 7

Balderdash

Answer 7

Senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense

Question 8

Belligerent

Answer 8

Warlike; given to waging war

Question 9

Benevolent

Answer 9

Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

Question 10

Blather

Answer 10

Foolish, voluble talk

Question 11

Captious

Answer 11

Apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; fault finding; difficult to please

Question 12

Charlatan

Answer 12

A person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than they possess; fraud; quack

Question 13

Circumlocution

Answer 13

A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea

Question 14

Commensurate

Answer 14

Corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

Question 15

Connotation

Answer 15

Something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described

Question 16

Dalliance

Answer 16

A trifling away of time; dawdling

Question 17

Decrepit

Answer 17

Weakened by old age; feeble; infirm

Question 18

Deign

Answer 18

To think it appropriate to or in accordance with on’s dignity; condescended

Question 19

Delineate

Answer 19

To trace the outline of; stretch or trace in outline; represent pictorially

Question 20

Disingenuous

Answer 20

Lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

Question 21

Eclectic

Answer 21

Selecting or choosing from various sources/made up of what is selected from different sources

Question 22

Egalitarian

Answer 22

Asserting, resulting from , or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life

Question 23

Egregious

Answer 23

Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant

Question 24

Elucidate

Answer 24

To make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain

Question 25

Enigma

Answer 25

A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

Question 26

Facetious

Answer 26

Not meant to be taken seriously or literally

Question 27

Fatuous

Answer 27

Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious complacent manner; silly; witless

Question 28

Feckless

Answer 28

Ineffective; incompetent; futile

Question 29

Flippant

Answer 29

Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity

Question 30

Furtive

Answer 30

Taken, done,used,etc. surreptitiously or by stealth; secret