Vocabulary: Secondary Meanings 2

Question 0

Adumbrate

Answer 0

(Verb) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

Question 1

Abjure

Answer 1

(Verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

Anathema

Answer 2

(Noun) a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Question 3

Anodyne

Answer 3

(Adj. / Noun) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 4

Apogee

Answer 4

(Noun) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

Question 5

Apostate

Answer 5

(Noun) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 6

Apotheosis

Answer 6

(Noun) deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

Question 7

Asperity

Answer 7

(Noun) severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

Question 8

Asseverate

Answer 8

(Verb) to aver, allege, or assert

Question 9

Assiduous

Answer 9

(Adj.) diligent, hard-working, sedulous

Question 10

Augury

Answer 10

(Noun) omen, portent

Question 11

Bellicose

Answer 11

(Adj.) belligerent, pugnacious, warlike