Vocabulary Lesson 8

Question 0

Asylum

Answer 0

An institution for the care of children, elderly people, etc. A place of safety

Question 1

Assurance

Answer 1

A pledge, freedom from doubt, self-confidence

Question 2

Console

Answer 2

To comfort. The keyboard of an organ, a control panel for an electrical or mechanical device

Question 3

Dilate

Answer 3

To make or become larger or wider, to expand upon

Question 4

Dross

Answer 4

Refuse, waste products

Question 5

Dwindle

Answer 5

To lessen, diminish

Question 6

Flippant

Answer 6

Lacking in seriousness, disrespectful, saucy

Question 7

Immunity

Answer 7

Resistance to disease, freedom from some charge or obligation

Question 8

Institute

Answer 8

To establish, set up, organization that promotes learning

Question 9

Liability

Answer 9

A debt, something disadvantageous

Question 10

Preposterous

Answer 10

Ridiculous, senseless

Question 11

Pugnacious

Answer 11

Quarrelsome, fond of fighting

Question 12

Rabid

Answer 12

Furious , violently intense, unreasonably extreme, mad

Question 13

Realm

Answer 13

A kingdom, a region or field of study

Question 14

Rejuvenate

Answer 14

To make young again, to make like new

Question 15

Sparse

Answer 15

Meager, scant, scattered

Question 16

Remunerate

Answer 16

To reward, pay, reimburse

Question 17

Sterling

Answer 17

Genuine, excellent, made of silver of standard fineness

Question 18

Venture

Answer 18

A risky or daring undertaking, to expose to danger, to dare

Question 19

Warp

Answer 19

To twist out of shape , an abnormality