Vocabulary 3

Question 1

Mercurial

Answer 1

subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

Question 2

Blithe

Answer 2

showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

Question 3

Phlegmatic

Answer 3

(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

Question 4

Aghast

Answer 4

filled with horror or shock

Question 5

Obduracy

Answer 5

1 a : stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing. b : hardened in feelings. 2 : resistant to persuasion or softening influences

Question 6

Caprice

Answer 6

a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behaviour

Question 7

Assiduous

Answer 7

showing great care and perseverance

Question 8

Loquacious

Answer 8

tending to talk a great deal; talkative

Question 9

Diffident

Answer 9

modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

Question 10

Taciturnity

Answer 10

temperamentally disinclined to talk; reserved

Question 11

Alacrity

Answer 11

brisk and cheerful readiness

Question 12

Rhapsody

Answer 12

an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling; an epic poem (in ancient Greece)

Question 13

Stanched

Answer 13

stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound

Question 14

Abeyance

Answer 14

a state of temporary disuse or suspension

Question 15

Inchoate

Answer 15

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

Question 16

Beget

Answer 16

(especially of a man) bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction.
“they hoped that the King might beget an heir by his new queen”