Vocabulary List #14: Othello

Question 1

Mettle

Answer 1

(n) Courage and fortitude.

Disposition or temperament.

Question 2

Palate

Answer 2

(n) The roof of the mouth.
The sense of taste.
Intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation.

Question 3

Portent

Answer 3

(n) An indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
Threatening or disquieting significance.
A prodigy or marvel.

Question 4

Odious

Answer 4

(adj) Deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.

Highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting; abhorrent.

Question 5

Amorous

Answer 5

(adj) Inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love.
Showing or expressing love.
Of or pertaining to love.
Being in love; enamored

Question 6

Begrudged

Answer 6

(v-used with object) Envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone).
To be reluctant to give, grant, or allow

Question 7

Lascivious

Answer 7

(adj) Inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd.
Arousing sexual desire.
Indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness

Question 8

Perdition

Answer 8

(n) A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
The future state of the wicked.
Hell.
Utter destruction or ruin.

Question 9

Sophomoric

Answer 9

(adj) Of or pertaining to a sophomore or sophomores.
Suggestive of or resembling the traditional sophomore; intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, but immature.

Question 10

Precocious

Answer 10

(adj) Usually advanced or mature in development, especially metal development.
Prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties.
Of or pertaining to premature development.

Question 11

Virulent

Answer 11

(adj) Actively poisonous; intensely noxious.
Violently or spitefully hostile.
Intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious.

Question 12

Assiduous

Answer 12

(adj) Constant; unremitting.

Constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive.

Question 13

Innocuous

Answer 13

(adj) Not harmful or injurious; harmless.
Not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive.
Not interesting, stimulating, or significant, pallid; insipid

Question 14

Svelte

Answer 14

(adj) Slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
Suave; blandly urbane.

Question 15

Expunge

Answer 15

(v-used with object) To strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
To efface; wipe out or destroy

Question 16

Blithe

Answer 16

(adj) Joyous merry, or hay in disposition; glad; cheerful.

Without thought or regard; carefree; heedless

Question 17

Lucid

Answer 17

(adj)Easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible.
Characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane.
Shinning or bright.
Clear, pellucid; transparent.

Question 18

Table

Answer 18

(v-used with object) To lay aside for future discussion, usually with a view postponing or shelving the manner indefinitely

Question 19

Destitute

Answer 19

(adj) Without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter. Deprived of devoid of, or lacking.
(v-used with object) To leave destitute.

Question 20

Nuance

Answer 20

(n) A subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response. A very slight difference or variation in color or tone.