Vocabulary 2

Question 1

Conformist

Answer 1

Conforming to accepted ideals or behaviors

Question 2

Convergence

Answer 2

Moving toward union or unity

Question 3

Deleterious

Answer 3

Causing harm or damage

Question 4

Demagogue

Answer 4

A political leader who gains support by appealing to popular desires

Question 5

Digression

Answer 5

A message that parts from the main subject

Question 6

Diligent

Answer 6

Having or showing care towards one’s work and work ethic

Question 7

Discredit

Answer 7

To harm the good credit of something or someone

Question 8

Disdain

Answer 8

The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s respect

Question 9

Divergent

Answer 9

Tending to become different or differentiate in direction

Question 10

Empathy

Answer 10

The ability to understand another’s feelings and emotions

Question 11

Emulate

Answer 11

To match and imitate

Question 12

Enervating

Answer 12

Causing one to lose energy and vitality

Question 13

Ephemeral

Answer 13

Lasting for a very short period of time

Question 14

Evanescent

Answer 14

Soon passing out of sight or memory

Question 15

Exemplary

Answer 15

Serving as a desirable model or example

Question 16

Extenuating

Answer 16

Making an event seem less serious and more forgivable

Question 17

Florid

Answer 17

Elaborately complicated or extensive

Question 18

Forbearance

Answer 18

The act of restraining and tolerance

Question 19

Fortitude

Answer 19

Courage in the face of adversity

Question 20

Fortuitous

Answer 20

Happening by chance or luck, rather than by design

Question 21

Foster

Answer 21

To encourage to develop, to bring up

Question 22

Fraught

Answer 22

To end in something undesirable

Question 23

Frugal

Answer 23

Simple and plain, or, costing little. Sparing money or food for economical purposes

Question 24

Hackneyed

Answer 24

Lacking in significance through being overused

Question 25

Haughty

Answer 25

Arrogantly superior and disdainful