Vocabulary

Question 1

What is indignation?

Answer 1

anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

Question 2

What is unadorned?

Answer 2

not adorned; plain

Question 3

What is enigma?

Answer 3

a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.

Question 4

What is fastidious?

Answer 4

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
“he chooses his words with fastidious care”

Question 5

What is subversive?

Answer 5

seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution.
“subversive literature”; tending to weaken or destroy an established political system, organization, or authority: The FBI had the duty of obtaining evidence of subversive activity.

Question 6

What is pallid?

Answer 6

Pallid means pale, or lacking color.

Question 7

What is solace?

Answer 7

If something eases your disappointment or grief, consider it a solace. If you’re sad, you might find solace in music or in talking to your friends; comfort.

Question 8

What is debilitating?

Answer 8

adj. Something that’s debilitating seriously affects someone or something’s strength or ability to carry on with regular activities

Question 9

What is martyr?

Answer 9

Someone who suffers, or is even killed, for his or her political or religious beliefs is called a martyr.

Question 10

What is emissary?

Answer 10

noun someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
synonyms: envoy

Question 11

What is guant?

Answer 11

adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

Question 12

What is disdainfully?

Answer 12

When you do something disdainfully, you do it with disapproval or contempt. You might look disdainfully at an airplane passenger who’s yelling at his young son.

Question 13

What is despondent?

Answer 13

adjective without or almost without hope
“despondent about his failure”
synonyms: heartsick

Question 14

What is clandestine?

Answer 14

adjective conducted with or marked by hidden aims/secrets
“clandestine intelligence operations”
synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground

Question 15

What is alluring?

Answer 15

adjective highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
“an alluring prospect”
“her alluring smile”
synonyms:beguiling, enticing, tempting

Question 16

What is arbitrary?

Answer 16

existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will.