Week 5 Vocab

Question 1

Erudite

Answer 1

(adj.) Learned, knowleadgeable, or scholarly

Question 2

Diffident

Answer 2

(adj.) Lacking self-confidence; shy, timid.

Question 3

Eschew

Answer 3

(v) To shun, avoid, or abstain from.

Question 4

Malleable

Answer 4

(adj.) Capable of being shaped or molded, as by a hammer or pressure; susceptible to control or outside influence; adaptable to changing conditions.

Question 5

Savant

Answer 5

(adj.) Learned person; scholar; sage. “An idiot savant”.

Question 6

Sedulous

Answer 6

(adj.) Diligent or perserverent in effort or application; done or achieved through perserverance.

Question 7

Hallmark

Answer 7

(adj.) An outstanding or distinguishing feature; a mark indicating quality or excellence.

Question 8

Hapless

Answer 8

(n) Unfortunate, or unlucky.

Question 9

Sinecure

Answer 9

(adj.) A paid position or office requiring little or no work.

Question 10

Harrow

Answer 10

(v) To disturb or torment; to prepare the ground for planting with a harrow, designed to break up and even out plowed land.

Question 11

Exhaustive

Answer 11

(adj.) Thorough, not leaving anything out; tending to exhaust; exhausting.

Question 12

Haven

Answer 12

(n) A place of comfort or rest, a sanctuary; a port or harbor.

Question 13

Clinch

Answer 13

(v) Grab, hold; secure a goal. “To clinch the win”

Question 14

Stymie

Answer 14

(v) To block, thwart, or stand in the way of.

Question 15

Enigma

Answer 15

(n) A puzzling or inscrutable person, occurance or situation; a puzzling or inscrutable text or speech.

Question 16

Welter

Answer 16

(n) A confused jumble or mass; to become deeply involved or embroiled in something; to roll, writhe or heave.

Question 17

Supplicate

Answer 17

(v) To ask humbly of (someone); to beseech; to ask for something humbly, to pray for.

Question 18

Zealous

Answer 18

(adj.) Fervent, filled with or motivated by passion or excessive enthusiasm.

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

(n) Extreme exaggeration, often used for effect as a figure of speech.

Question 20

Torrid

Answer 20

(adj.) Parched, burning, intensely hot; passionate, ardent; fast, hurried.

Question 21

Idyll

Answer 21

(n) A poem, either a short description of an idealized rural scene or a narrative dealing with romantic or heroic themes; A carefree, romantic, lighthearted experience or period; a romantic interlude.

Question 22

Travesty

Answer 22

(n) A distorted, debased, grotesque, or inferior imitation or likeness; an exaggerated burlesque or imitation of serious literary work, usually grotesquely incongruous.

Question 23

Turpitude

Answer 23

(n) Depravity, baseness, vileness; a base act.

Question 24

Fervor

Answer 24

(n) Intensity or warmth or emotions; intense heat.

Question 25

Cacophony

Answer 25

(adj.) Dissonance; Jarring, harsh or discordant sound.

Question 26

Fledge

Answer 26

(v) To care for (as a young bird) until it is ready to fly; to cover with or as with feathers; to grow plumage needed for flight.

Question 27

Impassive

Answer 27

(adj.) Not revealing, expressing or betraying emotion.

Question 28

Impecunious

Answer 28

(adj.) Penniless; without money.

Question 29

Warmonger

Answer 29

(n) One who advocated or attempts to incite war.

Question 30

Impede

Answer 30

(v) To hinder or obstruct movement or progress.

Question 31

Abhore

Answer 31

(v) To hate, despise, regard with horror or repugnance.

Question 32

Prevaricate

Answer 32

(v) To equivocate, lie or stray from the truth.

Question 33

Divulge

Answer 33

(v) To reveal or make known (a secret or confidence).

Question 34

Precursor

Answer 34

(n) One that precedes and announces or suggests another’s approach; a forerunner or predecessor; one that precedes another.

Question 35

Attenuate

Answer 35

(v) To make thin, slender or small; to reduce in density or consistency; to rarify; to lessen the force, value, numbers or stength of; to reduce the intensity, vitality or virulence of.

Question 36

Ostentatious

Answer 36

(adj.) Given to exessive, pretentious, conspicuous display.

Question 37

Improbity

Answer 37

(n) Dishonesty; lack of probity

Question 38

Conversance

Answer 38

(n) Familiarity; the state of being able to converse knowledgeably.

Question 39

Quandary

Answer 39

(n) State of perplexity, especially regarding how to proceed.

Question 40

Propriety

Answer 40

(n) The quality of being proper or appropriate; (Plural:) the customs and rules of polite society.

Question 41

Impudent

Answer 41

(adj.) Insolent, boldly disrespectful.

Question 42

Dwindle

Answer 42

(v) To shrink or diminish until little remains.

Question 43

Impugn

Answer 43

(v) To challenge or attack as false or questionable.

Question 44

Capricious

Answer 44

(adj.) Whimsical; governed by or subject to caprice or impulse.

Question 45

Inadverdent

Answer 45

(adj.) Accidental or unintentional; inattentive, not fully focused or taking heed.

Question 46

Recumbent

Answer 46

(adj.) Lying down or recliing, especially in repose; resting or idle.

Question 47

Improptu

Answer 47

(adj.) Done, said or composed on the spur of the moment; improvised.

Question 48

Abjure

Answer 48

(v) To renounce, recant or repudiate, often solemnly or under oath.

Question 49

Refulgent

Answer 49

(adj.) Radient, resplendent; shinning brilliantly.