vocabulary list five

Question 1

abjure

Answer 1

v. to renounce, to reject

Question 2

affront

Answer 2

n. insult, offence

Question 3

audible

Answer 3

adj. able to be heard

Question 4

bequeathed

Answer 4

v. to leave by a will, to hand down

Question 5

burnish

Answer 5

v. to polish

Question 6

carping

Answer 6

adj. critical, judgmental

Question 7

cupidity

Answer 7

n. greed

Question 8

duress

Answer 8

n. under pressure

Question 9

widow

Answer 9

n. a woman who has lost her spouse

Question 10

elegy

Answer 10

n. a funeral poem

Question 11

execrable

Answer 11

adj. extremely bad and unpleasant

Question 12

foster

Answer 12

v. to encourage and promote

Question 13

injunction

Answer 13

n. an authoritative order or warning

Question 14

linchpin

Answer 14

n. a person or thing vital to an organization

Question 15

maxim

Answer 15

n. rules of conduct, principles

Question 16

morose

Answer 16

adj. sullen and ill-tempered

Question 17

noxious

Answer 17

adj. poisonous

Question 18

pertinacious

Answer 18

adj. holding firmly to an opinion

Question 19

reproved

Answer 19

v. to reprimand

Question 20

revoked

Answer 20

v. to repeal, to take back

Question 21

scintillating

Answer 21

adj. sparkling brightly

Question 22

surreptitious

Answer 22

adj. secretive

Question 23

torpid

Answer 23

adj. mentally or physically inactive

Question 24

vapid

Answer 24

adj. not stimulating, unexciting, uninteresting

Question 25

whimsical

Answer 25

adj. playful, implusive

Question 26

wizened

Answer 26

adj. shriveled, wrinkled with age