Vocabulary Unit 8

Question 1

Compatible

Answer 1

Able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model

Question 2

Decrepit

Answer 2

Old and feeble

Question 3

Ingenuous

Answer 3

Innocent, simple, frank, sincere

Question 4

Stultify

Answer 4

Out of date, no longer in use

Question 5

Parsimonious

Answer 5

Stingy, miserly

Question 6

Multifarious

Answer 6

Having great variety; numerous and diverse

Question 7

Suave

Answer 7

Smoothly agreeable or polite

Question 8

Recalcitrant

Answer 8

Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Question 9

Omnivorous

Answer 9

Eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything

Question 10

Deride

Answer 10

To ridicule, laugh at with contempt

Question 11

Commend

Answer 11

To praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention

Question 12

Consecrate

Answer 12

To make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose

Question 13

Obsolete

Answer 13

To make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on

Question 14

Revel

Answer 14

To take great pleasure in; a wild celebration

Question 15

Condolence

Answer 15

An expression of sympathy

Question 16

Apathy

Answer 16

A lack of feeling, emotion or interest

Question 17

Quandary

Answer 17

A state of perplexity or doubt

Question 18

Animosity

Answer 18

A strong dislike; bitter hostility

Question 19

Reprisal

Answer 19

An injury done in return for injury

Question 20

Apprehensive

Answer 20

Fearful or anxious, especially about the future