Vocabulary in School - Part 6

Question 1

altruistic

Answer 1

unselfish regard or devotion to others

Question 2

amenable

Answer 2

responsive; agreeable

Question 3

amiable

Answer 3

good natured and well liked

Question 4

astute

Answer 4

shrewd; clever

Question 5

brusque

Answer 5

rudely abrupt in manners

Question 6

camaraderie

Answer 6

good will between friends

Question 7

cantankerous

Answer 7

feeling hatred; being scornful

Question 8

cordial

Answer 8

warm and sincere; sociable

Question 9

derived

Answer 9

copy or adapted from a source

Question 10

feral

Answer 10

savage, fierce, or untamed

Question 11

flagrant

Answer 11

extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable

Question 12

fractious

Answer 12

quarrelsome; unruly

Question 13

gregarious

Answer 13

enjoying the company of others; sociable

Question 14

incorrigible

Answer 14

unable to be reformed

Question 15

ingrate

Answer 15

ungrateful person

Question 16

innocuous

Answer 16

having no bad effect; harmeless

Question 17

innovative

Answer 17

introducing something new

Question 18

insolent

Answer 18

insulting in manner or speech

Question 19

lucid

Answer 19

easily understood

Question 20

malevolent

Answer 20

having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; hateful

Question 21

notorious

Answer 21

known widely and unfavorably; infamous

Question 22

obdurate

Answer 22

stubborn; inflexible

Question 23

panegyric

Answer 23

statement of high praise

Question 24

parsimonious

Answer 24

excessively cheap

Question 25

proximity

Answer 25

closeness

Question 26

provision

Answer 26

a condition, requirement, or item specified in a legal document or agreement

Question 27

repugnant

Answer 27

causing disgust or hatred

Question 28

salutary

Answer 28

good benefits

Question 29

synecdoche

Answer 29

a form of metonymy thats restricted to cases where a part is used to specify the whole

Question 30

unpalatable

Answer 30

not pleasing to the taste (literal of figurative)