Vocabulary 2

Question 1

Wary

Answer 1

Watchful; being on one’s guard against danger.

Question 2

Arable

Answer 2

Land suitable for growing crops.

Question 3

Dispelled

Answer 3

To drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate.

Question 4

Heterogenous

Answer 4

Having its source or origin outside the organism; having a foreign origin.

Question 5

Squatters

Answer 5

A person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent

Question 6

Precarious

Answer 6

Dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control; uncertain; unstable; insecure.

Question 7

Encroach

Answer 7

To advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits.

Question 8

Emulate

Answer 8

To try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass.

Question 9

Augment

Answer 9

To make larger, or enlarge in size, number, or strength.

Question 10

Aggregate

Answer 10

Collective or combined.

Question 11

Solvent

Answer 11

Able to pay all just debts.

Question 12

Itinerant

Answer 12

Traveling from place to place.

Question 13

Burgeoning

Answer 13

To grow and flourish.

Question 14

Demerit

Answer 14

A mark against a person for misconduct or failure.

Question 15

Autocratic

Answer 15

Exercising usually unwarranted power.