Vocabulary Quiz #1

Question 1

What does abase mean?

Answer 1

to humiliate, degrade

Question 2

What is the part of speech for abduct?

Answer 2

verb

Question 3

Frankie’s mother told him not to be _____ when he refused to attend the birthday party.

Answer 3

bashful

Question 4

What does behemoth mean?

Answer 4

something of tremendous power or size

Question 5

What is the part of speech for candor?

Answer 5

noun

Question 6

The principal _____ the head of the English Department for forcing students to learn esoteric vocabulary.

Answer 6

censured

Question 7

What does debase mean?

Answer 7

to lower the quality or esteem of something

Question 8

What is the part of speech for decorous?

Answer 8

adjective

Question 9

When she found out she had won the lottery, the writer was _____.

Answer 9

elated

Question 10

What does emaciated mean?

Answer 10

very thin, enfeebled looking

Question 11

What is the part of speech for fabricate?

Answer 11

verb

Question 12

What does fastidious mean?

Answer 12

meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards

Question 13

Mrs. Watson has poor taste and covers every object in her house with a _____ gold lamé.

Answer 13

garish

Question 14

What is the part of speech for gluttony?

Answer 14

noun

Question 15

What does haughty mean?

Answer 15

disdainfully proud

Question 16

The _____ in service should last two or three months—until the cable lines are repaired .

Answer 16

hiatus

Question 17

What is the part of speech for illicit?

Answer 17

adjective

Question 18

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Nancy decided to _____ herself in her work in order to avoid crying.

Answer 18

immerse

Question 19

What is the definition for latent?

Answer 19

hidden, but capable of being exposed

Question 20

What is the part of speech for lavish?

Answer 20

adjective and verb