Vocabulary 4

Question 1

Allay:

Answer 1

Diminish or pot to rest

Question 2

Capacious:

Answer 2

Having a lot of space inside; roomy

Question 3

Diurnal:

Answer 3

Of or during the day

Question 4

Extricate:

Answer 4

Free someone or something from a constraint or difficulty

Question 5

Ignominious:

Answer 5

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 6

Mitigate:

Answer 6

Make less severe, serious, or painful

Question 7

Palpitate:

Answer 7

To beat rapidly and strongly

Question 8

Phlegmatic:

Answer 8

Not easily excited to action or display emotion

Question 9

Propitious:

Answer 9

Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable

Question 10

Prostrate:

Answer 10

To cast oneself face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration

Question 11

Acquiesce:

Answer 11

Accept something reluctantly but without protest

Question 12

Amity:

Answer 12

A friendly relationship

Question 13

Arduous:

Answer 13

Involving or requiring strenuous effort, difficult and tiring

Question 14

Gestalt:

Answer 14

An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts

Question 15

Inundate:

Answer 15

Overwhelm someone with things or people to be dealt with

Question 16

Perjury:

Answer 16

Knowingly making a false statement under oath or knowingly signing a legal document that is false/ includes false statements

Question 17

Perspicuity:

Answer 17

The quality of being clear and easy to understand

Question 18

Preposterous:

Answer 18

Utterly absurd or ridiculous

Question 19

Trepidation:

Answer 19

A nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

Question 20

Voluble:

Answer 20

A person talking fluently or readily