Week 12: CPD + CA & Present Participle

Question 1

Fecund

Answer 1

Producing an abundance of offspring or new growth.
Fruitful, Fertile.
I love my fecund wife; however, she can’t say the same about my infertility.
CPD+ CA

Question 2

Infirmity

Answer 2

Physical or mental weakness.
Frailty, Malady.
Realizing he had little time left, Jonathan put his infirmity of old age aside and did what made him happy.
Present Part.

Question 3

Malady

Answer 3

A disease or ailment.
Infirmity, Sickness.
The best of us get maladies; likewise, the worst of us get better.
CPD + CA

Question 4

Nuance

Answer 4

A subtle difference in shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
Distinction, Subtlety.
Noticing the nuances of her facial expressions got me through our relationship.

Question 5

Profligate

Answer 5

Utterly or shamelessly immoral.
Immoral, Corrupt.
He promised her he would changed his profligate lifestyle of drink; however, he only got worse.

Question 6

Remonstrance

Answer 6

The act of protesting or disapproving.
Complaint, Object.
The lack of action from the government stirred a remonstrance in America.

Question 7

Scintillate

Answer 7

To emit sparks.
Flash, Glimmer.
When I see her, my heart scintillates like a firework show on the Fourth of July.

Question 8

Terse

Answer 8

Neatly or effectively concise.
Brusque, Laconic.
Although terse, their vows became the most remembered line of the movie.

Question 9

Vitate

Answer 9

To impair the quality of.
To debase, To blemish.
The increasing population vitiated Santa Claus’s workshop efficacy because of its increasing demand.

Question 10

Elegiac

Answer 10

Expressing sorrow or lamentation.
Doleful, Funereal.
Hoping to move on, Lee delivered a superficial elegiac breakup speech.
Present Participle.