Vocabulary #2

Question 1

Inexorable

Answer 1

Not to be persuaded or moved // Unyielding, unalterable

Question 2

Illimitable

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Limitless

Question 3

Eldritch

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Eerie, spooky

Question 4

Amorphous

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Lacking definitive form, having no specific shape

Question 5

Impious

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Not religious, lacking reverence for god

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Musing

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Absorbed in thought, meditative

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Macabre

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Gruesome and horrifying

Question 8

Idyllic

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Charmingly simple // A poem of prose composition

Question 9

Primordial

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Constituting a beginning // Pertaining to something that was there from the start

Question 10

Indubitable

Answer 10

That cannot be doubted, unquestionable

Question 11

Docility

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Easily managed or handled, readily trained or taught.

Question 12

Autocratic

Answer 12

Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others

Question 13

Pallid

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Pale, faint // Lacking in vitality or interest

Question 14

Incipient

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Beginning to exist or appear in an initial stage

Question 15

Beseechingly

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To implore urgently

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Sanctity

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Holiness, saintliness, godliness

Question 17

Allusion

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A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

Question 18

Martyrdom

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Extreme suffering // A person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his religion

Question 19

Sordid

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Meaningly selfish // Dirty or filthy // Morally low or vile

Question 20

Tempest

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A violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail or snow // A violent commotion

Question 21

Fickle

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Likely to change, casually changeable // Not constant or loyal in affections

Question 22

Bathos

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A ludicrous descent from the exalted (high place); anticlimax

Question 23

Epitaph

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A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site

Question 24

Bequeath

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To dispose of by last will // To hand down

Question 25

Diatribe

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A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack or criticism

Question 26

Futile

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Incapable of producing any result, ineffective, useless, not successful

Question 27

Frivolous

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Characterised by lack of sense or seriousness // Unconcerned about or lacking serious purpose

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Catharsis

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The purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through kinds of art, tragedy or music

Question 29

Enumeration

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The act of mentioning separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify

Question 30

Inane

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Lacking sense, significance or ideas // Empty; void

Question 31

Excoriating

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To denounce or berate severely // To strip the skin from something

Question 32

Incisive

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Penetrating // Remarkably clear and direct

Question 33

Esoteric

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Understood by only a select few who have knowledge or interest

Question 34

Ebullient

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Overflowing with fervour, enthusiasm or excitement

Question 35

Emulous

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The effort or desire to equal or excel others

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Gallantries

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Dashing courage, heroic bravery

Question 37

Roistering

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To act in a swaggering, boisterous manner

Question 38

Vain

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Excessively proud or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities or achievements

Question 39

Hapless

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Unlucky, luckless

Question 40

Ingenuous

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Free from reserve or restraint; candid, severe

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Pomposity

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The quality of being pompous; an ostentatious display of dignity or importance

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Insipid

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Without distinctive, interesting or stimulating qualities; bland

Question 43

Prosody

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The science or study of poetic meters and versification

Question 44

Perverse

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Wilfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contradictory

Question 45

Veritable

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Being truly or very much so

Question 46

Pathos

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The quality or power in actual life experience or in literature, music or art to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathy

Question 47

Erudition

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Knowledge acquired by study or research

Question 48

Surfeit

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An excessive amount

Question 49

Pestilence

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A deadly or highly infective epidemic disease

Question 50

Panegyric

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A lofty public speech writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy