Week 1 Vocab

Question 1

interminable

Answer 1

endless, so long as to seem endless; never-ending

Question 2

interrogate

Answer 2

to ask questions, examine by questioning; query

Question 3

recompense

Answer 3

to pay back, to give a reward, a payment for loss, service or injury; repay; compensation

Question 4

renovate

Answer 4

to repair, restore to good condition, make new again, recondition

Question 5

resume

Answer 5

a brief summary; a short written account of one’s education, working experience, or qualifications for a job

Question 6

sullen

Answer 6

silent or brooding because of ill humor, anger, or resentment slow moving, sluggish, grumpy, surly

Question 7

trickle

Answer 7

(v) to flow or fall by drops or in a small stream.
(n) a small, irregular quantity of anything

Question 8

trivial

Answer 8

(adj) not important, minor, ordinary, commonplace

Question 9

truce

Answer 9

a pause in fighting, temporary peace

Question 10

vicious

Answer 10

(adj) evil, bad, spiteful; having bad habits or an ugly disposition, painfully sever or extreme, wicked, malicious

Question 11

adjacent

Answer 11

near, next to adjoining, alongside, nearby

Question 12

alight

Answer 12

to get down from, step down from, to come down for the air, land, lighted up, dismount, land, touch down

Question 13

barren

Answer 13

not productive, bare; desolate, arid, sterile

Question 14

disrupt

Answer 14

to break up, disturb; upset, displace, disorder

Question 15

dynasty

Answer 15

a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time, ruling house, regime

Question 16

fortaste

Answer 16

an advance indication, sample or warning; preview, anticipation

Question 17

humdrum

Answer 17

ordinary, dull, routine, without variation, monotonous, boring

Question 18

germinate

Answer 18

to begin to grow, come into being, sprout, shoot up, burgeon

Question 19

hurtle

Answer 19

to rush violently, dash headlong; to fling or hurl forcefully; speed, fly, catapult, fling

Question 20

insinuate

Answer 20

to suggest or hint slyly, to edge into something indirectly, imply