Vocabulary #6

Question 1

Conceited

Answer 1

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one’s abilities

Question 2

Wheedling

Answer 2

To endeavour to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts:

Question 3

Sensibility

Answer 3

Capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.

Question 4

Superlative (grammar)

Answer 4

Relating to the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully.

Question 5

Pugilism

Answer 5

The art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.

Question 6

Paucity

Answer 6

Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness:

Question 7

Meritocratic

Answer 7

Based on ability and talent rather than class, privilege, or wealth

Question 8

Deposed

Answer 8

Removed from office

Question 9

Incredulous

Answer 9

Disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

Question 10

Ubiquitous

Answer 10

Existing everywhere, especially at the same time

Question 11

Nefarious

Answer 11

(Typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal.

Question 12

Expostulation

Answer 12

To reason earnestly with someone against something they have done

Question 13

Parley

Answer 13

An informal conference between enemies under a truce

Question 14

Remonstrate

Answer 14

To plead in protest; to present reasons in complaint

Question 15

Mendacious

Answer 15

Telling lies

Question 16

Puritanism

Answer 16

Being strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.

Question 17

Epicurean

Answer 17

Fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, especially in eating and drinking.

Question 18

Parity

Answer 18

Equality

Question 19

Fiduciary

Answer 19

A person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another

Question 20

Till

Answer 20

To labour as by plowing or harrowing; to cultivate the soil

Question 21

Burgeoning

Answer 21

Growing or developing quickly:

Question 22

Megalomania

Answer 22

An obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.

Question 23

Soliloquy

Answer 23

An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to themselves or is disregardful/oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character’s innermost thoughts)

Question 24

Exigent

Answer 24

Requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.

Question 25

Visage

Answer 25

The face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression etc.

Question 26

Wile

Answer 26

Trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.

Question 27

Evanescence

Answer 27

The quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence

Question 28

Pied

Answer 28

Having patches of two or more colours, as various birds and other animals:

Question 29

Gregarious

Answer 29

Fond of the company of others; sociable.

Question 30

Libertine

Answer 30

Free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; freethinking in religious matters.

Question 31

Squandered

Answer 31

Wasteful or extravagant expenditure

Question 32

Avaricious

Answer 32

Greedy

Question 33

Totemic

Answer 33

Regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept.

Question 34

Contrived

Answer 34

Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.

Question 35

Meliorism

Answer 35

The doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.

Question 36

Anthropogenic

Answer 36

Caused by humans

Question 37

Reproach

Answer 37

To find fault with; blame

Question 38

Odium

Answer 38

Intense hatred

Question 39

Nihilism

Answer 39

Total rejection of established laws and institutions; anarchy

Question 40

Fastidious

Answer 40

Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:

Question 41

Haphazard

Answer 41

Characterised by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness

Question 42

Bipartisan

Answer 42

Marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties

Question 43

Straiten

Answer 43

To make narrow; to make difficult especially with regards to money

Question 44

Pilfer

Answer 44

To steal

Question 45

Absolution

Answer 45

A freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties

Question 46

Ephemeral

Answer 46

Lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

Question 47

Espouse

Answer 47

Adopt, embrace, to make one's own

Question 48

Intransigent

Answer 48

Refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible

Question 48

Astuteness

Answer 48

The quality of being particularly discerning, clever, cunning, or ingenious

Question 49

Writ

Answer 49

Any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name; something written