Vocabulary Volume 1

Question 1

rejoice

Answer 1

great happiness, joy

Question 2

commencement

Answer 2

start, beginning

Question 3

enterprise

Answer 3

business, a task taken on, (drift, företagsamhet)

Question 4

foreboding

Answer 4

prediction, feeling something will come, tell in advance

Question 5

undertaking

Answer 5

enterprise, formal pledge, agreement, commitment

Question 6

fervent

Answer 6

intense emotions/feelings, passionate, ex. extremely hot

Question 7

vain

Answer 7

false pride

Question 8

desolation

Answer 8

state of being decayed/destroyed, state after being abandoned/left [to desolate]

Question 9

skirting

Answer 9

going around the edges, enclosing

Question 10

diffusing

Answer 10

spreading out, not concentrating in one place, becoming widely known

Question 11

perpetual

Answer 11

continuing forever/indefinitely, uninterrupted in time/space

Question 12

splendor

Answer 12

quality that outshines usual, being magnificent/grand

Question 13

wafted

Answer 13

förd

Question 14

hitherto

Answer 14

used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point/time

Question 15

voyage

Answer 15

journey to distant place, long travel

Question 16

render

Answer 16

cause to become or give[back]/supply

Question 17

satiate

Answer 17

fill/supply to satisfaction, or “overeating”

Question 18

ardent

Answer 18

characterized by intense emotion, strong enthusiasm, or glowing

Question 19

enticements

Answer 19

something that seduces, attract by seeming to promise a “reward”, influencing by exciting hope/desire

Question 20

sufficient

Answer 20

something that can fulfill a need without being abundant (tillräcklig)

Question 21

laborious

Answer 21

effort to the point of exhaustion, mostly physical

Question 22

embarks

Answer 22

go onboard, proceed despite the risks

Question 23

inestimable

Answer 23

beyond calculation or measure

Question 24

ascertaining

Answer 24

establish after experiment/investigation, discover with certainty/find out

Question 25

dispelled

Answer 25

forced to go away, being caused to separate [used both concrete and metaphorical]

Question 26

agitation

Answer 26

mental state of extreme emotional disturbance, turbulent change/development, not calm [agitating something - causing it to move around]

Question 27

vigorously

Answer 27

with a lot of power, strong and active, forceful and energetic [action] (kraftfullt)

Question 28

ardor

Answer 28

intense feeling of love/great warmth/intensity, feeling of strong eagerness

Question 29

eagerness

Answer 29

positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

Question 30

prospect

Answer 30

belief of [possibility of] future success or possibility occurring, search for something desirable, someone regarded as likely to succeed or being a possible customer/client etc.

Question 31

injunction

Answer 31

formal [authoritative]command/order/warning, (en dom som säger att något ska verkställas)

Question 32

effusion

Answer 32

unrestrained expression of emotion, alt. an instance of giving off something such as liquid or gas (ex giftiga utsläpp)

Question 33

consecrated

Answer 33

something that has been declared sacred, as a church or land

Question 34

acquaint

Answer 34

make someone familiar with or aware of

Question 35

famine

Answer 35

shortage of something, ex extreme shortage of food

Question 36

naval

Answer 36

related to the navy/navies, ex a naval base

Question 37

derive

Answer 37

obtain something from a specified source, [can be both ex food/things or comfort etc], or originate in/from