Week 3 Vocab

Question 1

Avocation

Answer 1

A hobby or minor occupation
Noun
He had an avocation for tennis.

Question 2

Callous

Answer 2

Being hardened and thickened
Adjective
He had callous hands.

Question 3

Capricious

Answer 3

Governed or characterized impulsively
Adjective
The boy had a capricious temper.

Question 4

Disparity

Answer 4

Containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements.
Noun
There is a disparity in electoral power between rural and urban districts.

Question 5

Efficacy

Answer 5

The power to produce an effect.
Noun
The vaccine’s efficacy was in question.

Question 6

Epistle

Answer 6

Formal or elegant letter
Noun
He wrote long epistles to her.

Question 7

Hospice

Answer 7

Lodging for travelers, young people, or the underprivileged.
Noun
They all stayed at the hospice.

Question 8

Impetus

Answer 8

A driving force
Noun
The discoveries were impetus for further research.

Question 9

Moribund

Answer 9

Being in the state of dying
Adjective
The moribund patient was deteriorating.

Question 10

Vacillate

Answer 10

To waver in mind, will, or feeling
Verb
She vacillated on the issue.