Vocabulary List 4

Question 1

Adept

Answer 1

Very skilled; proficient; expert.

One who is very skilled; an expert.

Question 2

Appreciable

Answer 2

Sufficient to be easily perceived, noticed, or measured.

Question 3

Callow

Answer 3

Lacking experience of life; immature.

Question 4

Exemplar

Answer 4

One that is worthy to be copied or imitated; a model.
A typical or standard specimen.
An ideal that serves as a pattern; an archetype.

Question 5

Maelstrom

Answer 5

A powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius.
A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs.

Question 6

Mollify

Answer 6

To pacify; to soothe or calm in temper or disposition; to assuage.
To soften; to reduce the rigidity of (as, to mollify the ground).

Question 7

Preternatural

Answer 7

Existing outside of nature; differing from the natural; non natural.
Surpassing the usual or normal; extraordinary; abnormal. Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means.

Question 8

Succor

Answer 8

Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.

Question 9

Supine

Answer 9

Lying on the back, or with the face upward.

Inactive or passive, especially from indolence or indifference

Question 10

Voluptuary

Answer 10

A person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.