Vocabulary List #25

Question 1

Secretly treacherous; intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful.

Answer 1

Insidious

Question 2

To depart temporarily from the main subject; to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; to depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.

Answer 2

Digress

Question 3

To pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one’s duty, avoid work, etc.

Answer 3

Malinger

Question 4

Slow to understand or perceive; not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.

Answer 4

Obtuse

Question 5

Authoritative doctrines or beliefs; prescribed doctrine proclaimed as unquestionably true by a particular group; a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle.

Answer 5

Dogma

Question 6

Inactive; uncultivated; unseeded.

Answer 6

Fallow

Question 7

Having many curves, bends or turns; indirect.

Answer 7

Sinuous

Question 8

Commonplace; ordinary; unimaginative.

Answer 8

Mundane

Question 9

Looking for a fight or an argument.

Answer 9

Pugilistic

Question 10

Sleepy; drowsy; tending to cause sleep.

Answer 10

Somnolent