Vocabulary Words Unit 10

Question 1

Deride

Answer 1

To speak truth with cruelty

Question 2

Pompous

Answer 2

Exaggeratedly self-important

Question 3

Perspicacity

Answer 3

A high level of perception or understanding

Question 4

Succinct

Answer 4

Precise expression using few words

Question 5

Mollify

Answer 5

To soften, to ease the anger of

Question 6

Cathartic

Answer 6

Emotionally cleansing or relieving

Question 7

Enervate

Answer 7

To weaken or drain of energy

Question 8

Vicarious

Answer 8

Felt or undergone as of one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another

Question 9

Apathetic

Answer 9

Lacking on interest, concern, or emotion (indifferent)

Question 10

Enumerate

Answer 10

To specify individually; to count

Question 11

Impetuous

Answer 11

Impulsive, unthinking

Question 12

complacent

Answer 12

self-satisfied to the point of inactivity

Question 13

idiosyncratic

Answer 13

peculiar to an individual

Question 14

avarice

Answer 14

greed

Question 15

insolent

Answer 15

disrespectfully arrogant

Question 16

cognizant

Answer 16

aware

Question 17

mitigate

Answer 17

to lessen in force or intensity

Question 18

proliferate

Answer 18

to increase or spread at a rapid rate

Question 19

heretical

Answer 19

characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

Question 20

gregarious

Answer 20

sociable

Question 21

amorphous

Answer 21

lacking definite form

Question 22

provincial

Answer 22

narrow-minded

Question 23

evanescent

Answer 23

fading away

Question 24

capricious

Answer 24

impulsive, unpredictable

Question 25

inherent

Answer 25

naturally occurring, essential