Vocabulary 10

Question 1

abjure

Answer 1

To renounce, repudiate, or retract especially with formal solemnity

Question 2

acumen

Answer 2

Keen insight or shrewdness

Question 3

Bellicose

Answer 3

Inclined or eager to fight or aggressively hostile

Question 4

Enfranchise

Answer 4

To endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

Question 5

Fatuous

Answer 5

Vacuously smugly and unconsciously foolish

Question 6

Feckless

Answer 6

Feeble or ineffective or careless and irresponsible or futile

Question 7

Fiduciary

Answer 7

Of or relating to holding of something in trust for another or a person down to act for another person’s benefits

Question 8

Gauche

Answer 8

Lacking social polish or tactless or awkward or crude or maladroit

Question 9

Hegemony

Answer 9

The predominant influence as of a state or region or group over another

Question 10

Incontrovertible

Answer 10

Impossible to dispute unquestionable or not open to question

Question 11

inculcate

Answer 11

To impress something up on the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition

Question 12

Jejune

Answer 12

Not interesting or double or insipid or lacking maturity

Question 13

Kowtow

Answer 13

To Neil and touch the four head to the ground and expression of deep respect worship or submission

Question 14

Lexicon

Answer 14

A Dictionary especially of Hebrew Latin or Greek or a stock of terms used in a particular profession language feels social class or subject

Question 15

Lugubrious

Answer 15

Mournful dismal or gloomy especially to an exaggerated affected or ludicrous degree

Question 16

Moiety

Answer 16

Half or a part portion or share

Question 17

nonsectarian

Answer 17

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination

Question 18

Orthography

Answer 18

The art or study of standard spelling

Question 19

Ontology

Answer 19

The branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being

Question 20

Precipice

Answer 20

A cliff with a vertical or near vertical or overhanging face or a situation of great peril

Question 21

querulous

Answer 21

Full of complaints or complaining

Question 22

Quotidian

Answer 22

Daily or usual or customary or every day or ordinary or common place

Question 23

Recapitulate

Answer 23

To repeat and concise form or to review as by brief summary

Question 24

Salutary

Answer 24

Favorable to or promoting health or wholesome or conducive to some beneficial purpose

Question 25

tautology

Answer 25

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words or redundancy or an empty statement composed of similar statements in a fashion that makes it logically true one of the simpler statements are factually true or false

Question 26

Tawdry

Answer 26

Cheap and gaudy an appearance and quality showy or cheap

Question 27

Unctuous

Answer 27

Characterized by affected exaggerated or insincere earnestness or piousness or excessively smooth Sauve or smug

Question 28

Valediction

Answer 28

An act of bidding farewell or taking leave or an utterance or ration or the like given in bidding farewell

Question 29

Winnow

Answer 29

To separate the chaff from by means of a current of air or true rid of undesirable parts or two separate or distinguish the valuable from the worthless parts

Question 30

Yeoman

Answer 30

Attendant servant or less or official and the noble household or a British farmer who cultivates his own land or a petty officer in the Navy generally one who has clerical duties in the U.S. Navy