Vocabulary Eleven

Question 1

quell

Answer 1

to put down or crush

Question 2

antipathy

Answer 2

a strong dislike

Question 3

haggard

Answer 3

guant, careworn

Question 4

specious

Answer 4

apparently reasonable but not so

Question 5

flotsam

Answer 5

wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on the sea

Question 6

jetsam

Answer 6

goods deliberately cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress

Question 7

malevolent

Answer 7

evil

Question 8

salubrious

Answer 8

healthful

Question 9

blandishment

Answer 9

word or deed of mild flattery

Question 10

lesion

Answer 10

a wound or injury

Question 11

calumnious

Answer 11

defamatory, slanderous

Question 12

misanthropist

Answer 12

one who hates mankind

Question 13

macrocosm

Answer 13

universe, the great world

Question 14

microcosm

Answer 14

the little world

Question 15

sardonic

Answer 15

bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering

Question 16

sanguine

Answer 16

confident, having a ruddy color

Question 17

piece de resistance

Answer 17

main dish; main item of a collection, series, program

Question 18

loquacious

Answer 18

talkative

Question 19

esprit de corps

Answer 19

feeling of union and common interest pervading a group

Question 20

dilettante

Answer 20

a person who follows an art or study superficially, though with interest