Vocabulary #1 Reversed

Question 1

abjure

Answer 1

to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the president abjured the evil policies of his wicked
predecessor.)

Question 2

blandish

Answer 2

to coax by using flattery (Rachel’s assistant tried to blandish her into accepting the deal.)

Question 3

cacophony

Answer 3

tremendous noise, disharmonious sound (The elementary school orchestra created a cacophony at
the recital.)

Question 4

deleterious

Answer 4

harmful (She experienced the deleterious effects of running a marathon without stretching her
muscles enough beforehand.)

Question 5

effrontery

Answer 5

impudence, nerve, insolence (When I told my aunt that she was boring, my mother scolded me for
my effrontery.)

Question 6

fatuous

Answer 6

silly, foolish (He considers himself a serious poet, but in truth, he only writes fatuous limericks.)

Question 7

grandiloquence

Answer 7

ofty, pompous language (The student thought her grandiloquence would make her sound
smart, but neither the class nor the teacher bought it.)

Question 8

harangue

Answer 8

a ranting speech (Everyone had heard the teacher’s harangue about gum chewing in class before.)

Question 9

ignominious

Answer 9

humiliating, disgracing (It was really ignominious to be kicked out of the dorm for having an
illegal gas stove in my room.)

Question 10

latent

Answer 10

hidden, but capable of being exposed (Sigmund’s dream represented his latent paranoid obsession with
other people’s shoes.)

Question 11

maelstrom

Answer 11

a destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects (Little did the explorers know that as they
turned the next bend of the calm river a vicious maelstrom would catch their boat.)

Question 12

munificence

Answer 12

generosity in giving (The royal family’s munificence made everyone else in their country rich.)