Vocabulary 10th Grade #23

Question 1

Virtue

Answer 1

noun - a particular moral excellence, or a standard of it; chastity, purity, especially in women
adjective - virtuous

Question 2

Taupe

Answer 2

adjective - a light brownish-gray color

Question 3

Gloat

Answer 3

verb - to regard with mean or greedy pleasure, greed, or exultation

Question 4

Indict

Answer 4

verb - to charge with an offence or crime; to formally accuse with legal evidence
noun - indictment

Question 5

Legacy

Answer 5

noun - something handed down or inherited; money or property left by a will

Question 6

Mortify

Answer 6

to humiliate or shame; to discipline oneself by self-denial or punishment

Question 7

Patent

Answer 7

noun - a government document giving a person the right to profit from an invention
ALSO
verb - to acquire such a document
adjective - evident, obvious such as a “patent lie”
adverb - patently

Question 8

Patriarch

Answer 8

noun - the founder or leader of a tribe or family; a respected old man

Question 9

Wheedle

Answer 9

verb - to influence or persuade by using flattery or soothing, sweet words; to coax

Question 10

Lucrative

Answer 10

adjective - profitable

Question 11

Palazzo

Answer 11

noun (Italian) - a large, ornate building as a palace, museum, or official residence

Question 12

Inexorable

Answer 12

adjective - relentless; not to be moved by entreaty

adverb - inexorably

Question 13

Concede

Answer 13

verb - to admit to be true; to grant; to yield

noun - concession

Question 14

Arduous

Answer 14

adjective - difficult; laborious

Question 15

Finesse

Answer 15

noun - extreme delicacy or subtlety in performance, skill, discrimination; skill and adroitness in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation
verb - to use (or bring about by) finesse or artifice

Question 16

Clangor

Answer 16

noun - a continuous clanging; a loud ringing sound, as of metal being hit

Question 17

Bovine

Answer 17

adjective - having qualities (as placidity or dullness) characteristic of oxen or cows

Question 18

Gracious

Answer 18

adjective - marked by kindness, courtesy; showing charm and good taste; graceful; merciful

Question 19

Xanadu

Answer 19

(always capitalized) noun - an idyllic, exotic or luxurious place (from “Kubla Khan”. Samual Taylor Coleridge’s poem)

Question 20

Enjoin

Answer 20

verb - to command, especially in law; to forbid or prohibit

Question 21

Invectives

Answer 21

noun - strong verbal abuse characterized by curses and insults