vocal quiz 1

Question 1

abnegation

Answer 1

self–denial; denial (of anything) to oneself; self sacrifice

Question 2

consternation

Answer 2

a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay

Question 3

august

Answer 3

1) inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic
2) venerable; eminent

Question 4

tenacious

Answer 4

holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold

Question 5

prodigious

Answer 5

extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force

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patina

Answer 6

a find or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value; a surface calcification of implements usually indicating great age

Question 7

didactic

Answer 7

incline to teach or lecture others too much; intended for instruction; instructive

Question 8

profusion

Answer 8

a great quantity or amaount

Question 9

pestilential

Answer 9

pernicious; harmful; annoyingly troublesome

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tenuous

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lacking a sound basis, as reasoning, unsubstantiated; weak ; lacking in clarity ; vague thin in consistency; rare or rarefied

Question 11

whimsical

Answer 11

given. yo whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious; erratic; unpredictable

Question 12

implacable

Answer 12

not to be appeased, mollified, pacified, unstoppable

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languid

Answer 13

lacking in vigor or vitality; slow or slack; lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent

Question 14

exaltation

Answer 14

elation of mind or feeling; sometimes abnormal or morbid in chraracter; rapture; the state of being excited

raised in rank, value, or power.
the state of being excited

Question 15

incipient

Answer 15

beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage

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rancor

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bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice

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imminent

Answer 17

likely to occur at any moment

Question 18

repugnant

Answer 18

distasteful, offensive or objectionable

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stoicism

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conduct conforming to the precepts of stoics, as repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain

Question 20

virulent

Answer 20

actively poisonous, intensely noxious, violently or spitefully hostile; intensely bitter, spiteful or malicious

Question 21

fervor

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great warmth and earnestness of feeling; intense heat

Question 22

lugubrious

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mournful, dismal or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

Question 23

seraphic

Answer 23

of, like, or befitting a seraph (which is a member of the
highest order of angels, often represented as a child’s
head with wings above, below, and on each side)

Question 24

attenuated

Answer 24

weakened or reduced in force, intensity, effect, quantity or value, made thin, slender or fine

Question 25

corpulence

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bulkiness or largeness of body, fatness, portliness

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inexorable

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unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded, moved or affected by prayers or entreaties

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chimerical

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unreal; imaginary; visionary, wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic

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stentorian

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very loud or powerful in sound

Question 29

temerity

Answer 29

reckless boldness; rashness

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soporific

Answer 30

causing or tending to cause sleep; pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; drowsy

Question 31

prostration

Answer 31

extreme mental or emotional depression or dejection; extreme physical weakness or
exhaustion

Question 32

slough

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an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region

a hole full or mire, as in a road

a condition of degradation, despair or helplessness

Question 33

prescience

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knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight

Question 34

capricious

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subject to, led by, or indictative of caprice or whim; erratic

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impertinence

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unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence

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acolyte

Answer 36

any attendant, assistant or follower

Question 37

sedentary

Answer 37

accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise

Question 38

flatulence

Answer 38

attended with, caused by or suffering from such an accumulation or gastrointestinal gas

Question 39

concatenate

Answer 39

a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events

Question 40

terse

Answer 40

neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language

Question 41

abrogate

Answer 41

to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an
authoritative act; repeat; to put aside;
put an end to

Question 42

impassive

Answer 42

without emotion; apathetic; unmoved; calm; serene