Vocabulary III-2

Question 1

Abominate (v)

Answer 1

hates, loathes, despises, abhors

Question 2

Accolade (n)

Answer 2

praise, honor, awards, accomplishment

Question 3

Acrimonious (adj)

Answer 3

bitter, harsh, caustic, acidic

Question 4

Ambrosial (adj)

Answer 4

delicious, delightful, divine

Question 5

Aplomb (n)

Answer 5

assurance, poise, nonchalance

Question 6

Bellicose (adj)

Answer 6

quarrelsome, warlike, pugnacious

Question 7

Bizarre (adj)

Answer 7

queer, grotesque, eccentric, eird

Question 8

cajole (v)

Answer 8

coaxed, teased, wheeled, cheat, swindle

Question 9

Charlatan (n)

Answer 9

fraud, fake, phony, impostor, counterfeit

Question 10

Consternation (n)

Answer 10

dismay, fear, terror, astonishment

Question 11

Convolution (n)

Answer 11

turns, windings, circumventions

Question 12

Daunt (v)

Answer 12

frighten, dismay, intimidate

Question 13

Deduce (v)

Answer 13

assume, infer, conclude by logical inference

Question 14

Effete (adj)

Answer 14

tired, weak, unproductive

Question 15

Emaciate (v)

Answer 15

thinned, wasted, unfleshed

Question 16

Emetic (n)

Answer 16

medicine that induces vomiting

Question 17

Ethnic (adj)

Answer 17

racial, pertaining to a group, cultural

Question 18

Fallacious (adj)

Answer 18

wrong, faulty, weak

Question 19

Fidelity (n)

Answer 19

loyalty, faithfulness, devotion

Question 20

Didactic (adj)

Answer 20

preachy, sermonizing, pedantic

Question 21

Germane (adj)

Answer 21

closely related, pertinent, relelvant

Question 22

Heinous (adj)

Answer 22

terrible, abominable, odious

Question 23

Iconoclast (n)

Answer 23

attacker of traditional ideas

Question 24

Inane (adj)

Answer 24

silly, void of sense

Question 25

Injunction (n)

Answer 25

court order, command, enjoining

Question 26

Intrinsic (adj)

Answer 26

necessary, essential, inherent

Question 27

Lascivious (adj)

Answer 27

lustful, lewd, wanton

Question 28

Mendacious (adj)

Answer 28

false, untruthful, fake

Question 29

Mulct(v)

Answer 29

cheated out of, tricked out of, robbed of

Question 30

Nugatory (adj)

Answer 30

worthless, trifling, ineffectual

Question 31

Objurgatory (adj)

Answer 31

rebuking, upbraiding, chiding

Question 32

Ossify (v)

Answer 32

harden, settle, rigidify

Question 33

Paragon (n)

Answer 33

model, perfect, example, type

Question 34

Parity (n)

Answer 34

similarity, equality, equivalence

Question 35

Peremptory (adj)

Answer 35

commanding, dictatorial, imperious

Question 36

Phlegmatic (adj)

Answer 36

sluggish, imperturbable, torpid

Question 37

Portentous (adj)

Answer 37

foretelling, presaging, prodigious with news

Question 38

Precocious (adj)

Answer 38

ahead of one's age level, prematurely brilliant, forward

Question 39

Pugnacious (adj)

Answer 39

aggressive, confrontational, belligerent, truculent, argumentative, contentious

Question 40

Repertoire (n)

Answer 40

range, list, stock, collection, selection, catalog, gamut, inventory

Question 41

Rusticate (v)

Answer 41

move to the country, to become or to cause somebody or something to become rustic in appearance or quality

Question 42

Scintillate (v)

Answer 42

to produce sparks of light when hit by particles or protons, to be dazzlingly lively, clever, or witty

Question 43

Staid (adj)

Answer 43

sedate, serious, grave, sober, dull, calm, settled, demure, stolid, solid, unadventurous

Question 44

Supercilious (adj)

Answer 44

arrogant, condescending, haughty, disdainful, pompous, patronizing, scornful, stuck-up, snooty

Question 45

Synthesis (n)

Answer 45

mixture, fusion, amalgamation, combination, blend, production, creation, manufacture

Question 46

Undulate (v)

Answer 46

roll, ripple, rise and fall, swell, heave, surge

Question 47

Urbane (adj)

Answer 47

suave, sophisticated, polished, refined, cultured, stylish, elegant, debonair

Question 48

Vegetate (v)

Answer 48

sit around, stagnate, be passive, be sluggish, loaf, twiddle your thumbs, kill time

Question 49

Vehement (adj)

Answer 49

fervent, passionate, heated, violent, intense, vigorous

Question 50

Vindictive (adj)

Answer 50

spiteful, malicious, bitter, mean, cruel, hurtful, nasty, unkind, malevolent