Vocabulary - Unit 13

Question 1

(v.) to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job

Answer 1

Malinger

Question 2

adj.) totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless

Answer 2

Forlorn

Question 3

chillingly proud and scornful

Answer 3

Haughty

Question 4

(v.) to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; property stolen by force

Answer 4

Plunder

Question 5

adj.) short but full of meaning and point

Answer 5

Pithy

Question 6

n.) the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity

Answer 6

Enormity

Question 7

(n.) a person (usually a child without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit

Answer 7

Waif

Question 8

v.) to adjust or change to suit conditions

Answer 8

Adapt

Question 9

(v.) to linger in an aimless way, hang around, dawdle, tarry

Answer 9

Loiter

Question 10

(v.) to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously

Answer 10

Vilify

Question 11

adj.) much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way

Answer 11

Vaunted

Question 12

(adj.) firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing

Answer 12

Steadfast

Question 13

(v.) to smile or speak in a silly, forced way; (n.) a silly forced smile

Answer 13

Simpler

Question 14

(adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous

Answer 14

Wry

Question 15

(v.) to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine

Answer 15

Attest

Question 16

adj.) necessary, urgent; (n.) a form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required

Answer 16

Imperative

Question 17

a physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle

Answer 17

Impediment

Question 18

a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; (adj.) marked by fear, ominous

Answer 18

Foreboding

Question 19

v.) to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline

Answer 19

Falter

Question 20

to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; (n.) a carpentry figure resembling a dove’s tail

Answer 20

Dovetail