Vocabulary Lesson 5

Question 1

ascend

Answer 1

s: to go up; to rise

a: descend

Question 2

austere

Answer 2

s: stern; unyeilding; ascetic

a: flexible, indulgent

Question 3

*banal

Answer 3

s: insipid; dull; trite; ordinary

a: original; extraordinary

Question 4

benign

Answer 4

s: beneficial; kind; gentle

a: unkind; malignant

Question 5

*capricious

Answer 5

s: changeable; erratic; fickle

a: constant

Question 6

depravity

Answer 6

s: corrupt nature; wickedness

a: morality

Question 7

taciturn

Answer 7

s: quiet; saying little; usually silent

a: talkative

Question 8

*engender

Answer 8

s: to originate; to produce; to propagate

a: destroy

Question 9

*enigma

Answer 9

s: obscure statement; mystery

a: understanding

Question 10

*furtive

Answer 10

s: surreptitious; secret; sneaky; sly

a: open

Question 11

extol

Answer 11

s: to glorify; to laud; to lift up

a: condemn

Question 12

esoteric

Answer 12

s: mysterious

a: obvious; understandable to all

Question 13

exacerbate

Answer 13

s: infuriate

a: mollify; pacify

Question 14

laud

Answer 14

s: acclaim

a: defame; criticize

Question 15

*levity

Answer 15

s: hilarity; frivolity

a: seriousness; gloominess

Question 16

nullify

Answer 16

s: cancel

a: make effective; initiate

Question 17

opaque

Answer 17

s: clouded; dull

a: transparent

Question 18

*prolific

Answer 18

s: productive

a: barren; unfruitful

Question 19

*repudiate

Answer 19

s: abandon; reject

a: adopt; acknowledge

Question 20

*reticence

Answer 20

s: hesitation; silence

a: candor; outspokenness

Question 21

servile

Answer 21

s: subservient

a: authoritative

Question 22

disparity

Answer 22

s: difference; inequality

a: similarity

Question 23

virulent

Answer 23

s: poisonous

a: harmless; kind

Question 24

*ephemeral

Answer 24

s: short lived; temporary

a: timeless; eternal