Week 2 vocabulary

Question 1

trepidation (N)

Answer 1

a feeling of alarm or dread

Question 2

formidable (adj)

Answer 2

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

Question 3

poignant (adj)

Answer 3

profoundly moving or touching:

He came to parliament and made a poignant and dignified departure after a bungling and undignified three weeks.

Question 4

propriety (N)

Answer 4

correct behavior

Question 5

deference (N)

Answer 5

humble respect:

The traditional man looked upon his elders with utter deference.

Question 6

faction (N)

Answer 6

a small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.

Question 7

prodigious (Adj)

Answer 7

Extremely large in size or amount:
He wrote a prodigious number of books in the last three years of his life; critics were amazed by the sheer volume of pages he wrote.

Question 8

intimate (V)

Answer 8

marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity

Question 9

licentious (adj)

Answer 9

lacking moral discipline:

After she became part of a wild crowd, the young girl engaged in licentious acts which shamed her religious family

Question 10

introspection (noun)

Answer 10

the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes:
Perhaps if you indulged in a little introspection, you would stop repeating the same bad habits