Vocabulary List #23

Question 1

To instill something into someone by repetition; to implant by repeated statement or admonition; to teach persistently and earnestly; to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually followed by with).

Answer 1

Inculcate

Question 2

To swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does; to vary, fluctuate, or vacillate between differing beliefs, opinions, conditions.

Answer 2

Oscillate

Question 3

Caused by or involving disease; caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition.

Answer 3

Pathological

Question 4

Implied, rather than expressly stated; unquestioning or unreserved.

Answer 4

Implicit

Question 5

To make concise; to condense; to summarize.

Answer 5

Encapsulate

Question 6

Self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws or governance.

Answer 6

Autonomous

Question 7

The main or essential part of something.

Answer 7

Gist

Question 8

Deadly; fatal; causing great harm or destruction.

Answer 8

Lethal

Question 9

Of the highest place in heaven; celestial.

Answer 9

Empyrean

Question 10

Pushed to one’s emotional limit; overly tense or sensitive; strained; on the edge.

Answer 10

Overstrung