Vocabulary Quiz 6

Question 1

Cognizant

Answer 1

(adj.) Having cognizance or knowledge, aware of. Competent to
deal judicially with a cause, crime, etc

Question 2

Provincial

Answer 2

(adj.) parochial or narrow-minded; lacking in education

Question 3

Engulf

Answer 3

(v.) To swallow up in a gulf, abyss, or whirlpool; to plunge into a gulf; to
plunge deeply and inextricably into a surrounding medium (often used figuratively)

Question 4

Moratorium

Answer 4

(n.) A postponement, an agreed delay, a deliberate

temporary suspension of some activity, etc. (freq. with on)

Question 5

Unfettered

Answer 5

(adj.) Not confined or restrained by fetters. Chiefly in fig. use:
Unrestrained, unrestricted

Question 6

Concur

Answer 6

(v.) Of times, events, and circumstances: To fall, happen, or occur together;
to coincide. To agree in opinion (with); To agree, accord in quality, character, etc.

Question 7

Lament

Answer 7

(v.) To express profound sorrow for or concerning; also, in mod. use, to feel
sorrow for; to mourn for the loss of (a person); to bewail (an occurrence, etc.)

Question 8

Degenerate

Answer 8

(v.) To lose, or become deficient in, the
qualities proper to the race or kind, to decline in character or qualities, become of a lower type; (n.) One who has lost, or
has become deficient in

Question 9

Precipitate

Answer 9

(v.) To throw (a person) suddenly or violently into a particular state or
condition, esp. an undesirable one. To cause (an event or series of events) to happen quickly,
suddenly, or unexpectedly

Question 10

Repudiate

Answer 10

v.) To deny the truth or validity of (a charge, etc.); to reject as
unfounded or inapplicable. To cast off, disown (a person or thing previously claimed as one’s
own or associated with oneself)

Question 11

Incorrigible

Answer 11

(adj.) Incapable of being corrected or amended; bad or

depraved beyond correction or reform: of persons, their habits, etc.

Question 12

Antidote

Answer 12

(n.) A medicine given to counteract the influence of poison, or an attack of
disease

Question 13

Laxity

Answer 13

(n.) Looseness of texture or cohesion; openness, uncompact structure or
arrangement; Looseness or slackness in the moral, want of firmness,
strictness, or precision

Question 14

Inextricable

Answer 14

(adj.) From which one cannot extricate oneself; esp. so

intricate or complicated that no means of exit can be discovered

Question 15

Scintillate

Answer 15

(v.) To send forth sparks or little flashes of light; to sparkle, twinkle