Vocabulary Week 5

Question 0

INANE

Answer 0

foolish, silly

Question 1

RAMPANT

Answer 1

going unchecked, widespread, flourishing

Question 2

ETHICS

Answer 2

code of principles, moral philosophy, principles

Question 3

CONCUR

Answer 3

agree

Question 4

CLANDESTINE

Answer 4

secret, undercover

Question 5

FLAGRANT

Answer 5

notorious

Question 6

ADMONISH

Answer 6

to warn, to reprove, to scold

Question 7

DURESS

Answer 7

compulsion, force, coercion

Question 8

CULPRIT

Answer 8

the guilty person, one who commits a crime

Question 9

INEXORABLE

Answer 9

inflexible, unrelenting, cannot be moved

Question 10

EGREGIOUS

Answer 10

remarkably bad, known for undesirable reason

Question 11

DISTRAUGHT

Answer 11

mentally confused, crazed, harassed

Question 12

DUPLICITY

Answer 12

cunning, trickery, double-dealing

Question 13

ACRIMONIOUS

Answer 13

bitter

Question 14

PAUCITY

Answer 14

scarcity, shortage

Question 15

ELICT

Answer 15

to draw forth, extract

Question 16

PERNICIOUS

Answer 16

harmful, causing injury

Question 17

TOLERATE

Answer 17

to put up with, to beat, to permit

Question 18

CONSTRUE

Answer 18

to make a deduction, to infer, to interpret

Question 19

IMPUNITY

Answer 19

freedom from punishment, exemption

Question 20

IDIOM

STOCK IN TRADE

Answer 20

the goods, tools, and other requisites of a profession

Question 21

IDIOM

TO TAKE DOWN A PEG

Answer 21

to take the conceit out of a braggart

Question 22

IDIOM

TO PASS THE BUCK

Answer 22

to evade responsibility

Question 23

IDIOM

TO LIONIZE A PERSON

Answer 23

to make a big fuss over someone