Week 9 Vocabulary

Question 1

Atone

Answer 1

Make amends; correct; Nothing the convicted murder said could atone for his crime.

Question 2

Replete

Answer 2

Full;plentiful; The pizza was replete with toppings.

Question 3

Mammoth

Answer 3

Large; Enormous; I could not imagine the mammoth size of the empire state building.

Question 4

Baleful

Answer 4

Threatening; She cast a baleful look at him when he said she’d gained weight.

Question 5

Diminution

Answer 5

Reduction; lessening; There is a diminution of the temperature at night in the spring.

Question 6

Purblind

Answer 6

Without sight; poor vision; The purblind man was undergoing surgery to regain his sight.

Question 7

Ethereal

Answer 7

Light; Heavenly; The ethereal mist covered the hill in the morning.

Question 8

Lackadaisical

Answer 8

lack of interest;without feeling; He stood there staring lackadaisically into space.

Question 9

Bland

Answer 9

Without taste; The loser of Top Chef had created too bland of food.

Question 10

Devoid

Answer 10

Without; lacking;The island was devoid of drinking water

Question 11

Proto

Answer 11

First; prototype; proton

Question 12

Pseudo

Answer 12

False; Pseudonym

Question 13

Retro

Answer 13

Backwards; retro,retrospective, retroactive.

Question 14

Sesqui

Answer 14

One and a half; sesquicentennial

Question 15

Somnus

Answer 15

Sleep;Insomnia,Insomniac

Question 16

Soph

Answer 16

Wise; Philosopher, philosophical,Sophocles

Question 17

Spir

Answer 17

Breath; Respiration, respitory, spirit.

Question 18

Spond, spons

Answer 18

Pledg, answer; Response, sponsor, responsible

Question 19

Stru,struct

Answer 19

Build; Construction,structure, instruct

Question 20

super

Answer 20

over; superhuman, supernatural, superior