Vocabulary Study 11

Question 1

Definition: misfortune, unfavorable happening

Answer 1

adversity

Question 2

Definition: something that relieves the effects of poison

Answer 2

antidote

Question 3

Definition: kindness, generosity, charity

Answer 3

benevolence

Question 4

Definition: deserving blame; guilty

Answer 4

culpable

Question 5

Definition: rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly

Answer 5

discursive

Question 6

Definition: to advise against, to talk out of

Answer 6

dissuade

Question 7

Definition: coming from a variety of diverse sources

Answer 7

eclectic

Question 8

Definition: to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

Answer 8

hypothesize

Question 9

Definition: an ungrateful person

Answer 9

ingrate

Question 10

Definition: to make an effort to gain good favor with someone

Answer 10

ingratiate

Question 11

Definition: stubborn, difficult to manage, headstrong

Answer 11

intractable

Question 12

Definition: dangerous, risky, not situation
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Answer 12

precarious

Question 13

Definition: to make impossible

Answer 13

preclude

Question 14

Definition: preference

Answer 14

predilection

Question 15

Definition: land or rock projecting into a body of water

Answer 15

promontory

Question 16

Definition: commonplace, uninspired, banal

Answer 16

prosaic

Question 17

Definition: to completely destroy

Answer 17

raze

Question 18

Definition: wrap, screen from view

Answer 18

shroud

Question 19

Definition: sluggish, inactive, dull

Answer 19

torpid

Question 20

Definition: capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately

Answer 20

viable

Question 21

(noun)
Synonyms: calamity, catastrophe, hardship, mishap, trial

Answer 21

adversity

Question 22

(noun)
Synonyms: antitoxin, cure, nullifier, remedy

Answer 22

antidote

Question 23

(noun)
Synonyms: goodwill

Answer 23

benevolence

Question 24

(adj)
Synonyms: liable, responsible

Answer 24

culpable

Question 25

(adj) Synonyms: deviating, digressive, excursive, wandering

Answer 25

discursive

Question 26

(verb) Synonyms: counsel, disadvice, discourage, disincline

Answer 26

dissuade

Question 27

(noun, adj) Synonyms: assorted, broad, diverse, heterogenous, liberal, multifarious, varied

Answer 27

eclectic

Question 28

(verb) Synonyms: brainstorm, cogitate, conjecture, contemplate, deliberate, excogitate

Answer 28

hypothesis

Question 29

(noun) Synonyms: bounder, self-seeker, thankless person

Answer 29

ingrate

Question 30

(verb) Synonyms: charm, flatter, grovel, kowtow

Answer 30

ingratiate

Question 31

(adj) Synonyms: headstrong, recalcitrant, refractory, unruly, willful

Answer 31

intractable

Question 32

adj) Synonyms: dubious, hairy, insecure, problematic, perlious, uncertain, unsafe

Answer 32

precarious

Question 33

(verb) Synonyms: avart, deter, forestall, impede, obviate, prevent

Answer 33

preclude

Question 34

(noun) Synonyms: affinity, bias, disposition, penchant, incilination, proclivity, propensity

Answer 34

predilection

Question 35

(noun) Synonyms: bluff, cape, jetty, peninsula

Answer 35

promontory

Question 36

(verb) Synonyms: bulldoze, decimate, demolish, expunge, obliterate

Answer 36

raze

Question 37

(adj) Synonyms: banal, drab, nackneyed, lackluster, pedestrian, workaday

Answer 37

prosaic

Question 38

(noun, verb) Synonyms: cover, envelop, screen, shade, veil, wrap

Answer 38

shroud

Question 39

(adj) Synonyms: apathetic, comatose, dormat, indolent, lackadiasical, languid, passive, somnolent

Answer 39

torpid

Question 40

(adj) Synonyms: applicable, doable, feasible, possible, workable

Answer 40

viable