Wordly Wise 1

Question 1

bewail (verb)

Answer 1

to express deep regret or sorrow over

I bewailed when the party I didn’t go to ended up being fun.

2. Many soccer fans bewailed over the retierment of the best footballer of all time Lionel Messi

Question 2

Destitute (adj)

Answer 2

1. Without resources or possessions,
   During Well, Europe was destitue of resources.
2. Lacking; devoid of.
   esspecially the necessities of life.
   Because the potato famine in Ireland, Ireland was destitue of food

Question 3

Extol (verb)

Answer 3

To praise highly
I was extoled when I got 100% on my test.

Question 4

Detract (verb)

Answer 4

To take away, especially from the value, beauty or importantce of.

Todays modern houses detract from the older houses from many years ago.

Question 5

emancipate (verb)

Answer 5

To set free from slavery; to liberate

The Emancipation Proclamation made saves free

Question 6

Flamboyant (adj

Answer 6

Excessivly showy; unrestrained (uncontrolled or uncontrollable)

The lady’s outfit was flamboyant

Question 7

impetus (noun

Answer 7

1.A driving force; anything that causes an action.
2. Increased activity resulting from a driving force
My low grade made me impetus to study more.

Question 8

Maxim

Answer 8

A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying

“You never how hard someones life is until you walk in their shoes” is a very important maxim

Question 9

Insuperable

Answer 9

Adj: Incapable of being overcome or defeated.
I thought passing the social stuidies test was insuperable

Question 10

Intermittent

Answer 10

adj: Not continuous; happing in intervals
I studied intermittently to be the most efficient.

Question 11

obligatory

Answer 11

adj: Required or demanded
the constitution test is obligatory to pass

Question 11

Vagabond

Answer 11

A person who wanders from place to place

The man was a vagabong before he setteled in a city

Question 11

visage

Answer 11

A face, especially one that expresses feelings
You could tell the girl was sad by her visage

Question 12

Plumb

Answer 12

1.adj vertical; straight up amd down
2 v. to measure the depth of water
The lake was too deep for us to plumb.
3.To understand by examining closely; to solve
4.To reach the deepest part of

Question 12

wheedle

Answer 12

1. v To coax by using sly persuasion or insincere praise.
   He tried to wheelde his father into letting him go to a movie on a school night by complimenting him and being nice to him
   2.To gain using sly persausion or in sincere praise
   I wheedled the information about the test from a friend who took it earlier

Question 13

Alacrity

Answer 13

n.1. Promptness in responding
The girl felt alacrity since she knew all the answers

2. eagerness
   I felt alacrity to leave school in the last minutes because it was summer break.

Question 14

array

Answer 14

1. n. A large group of poeple or things
2. An orderly arrangement or display
   .v to place in order
3. To dress up

Question 14

deduce

Answer 14

To draw a conclusion from given facts

Sherlock Holmes deduced that jimmy was the murderer because of the stories amd facts.

Question 15

encumber

Answer 15

1v. To weigh down or burden
I emcumbered the loss of my field hockey
2. to delay or prevent the aciton of

Question 16

fraught

Answer 16

adj. Full of accompained by (usally followed with)
We abandond our idea of traveling the Amazon Rain forest once we learned that we would he fraught with danger

				The situtitation was fraught with solutions and problems

Question 17

haphazard

Answer 17

adj. Marked by lacked of plan, order, or direction

We workijg haphazard to set up because the concert got moved indoors.

Question 18

incontrovertible

Answer 18

adj. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
His statement about climate change was incontrovertible

Question 19

inexplicable

Answer 19

Hard to explain or impossible to understand
Calculus seemed inexplicable necause of how hard it was

Question 20

ingenious

Answer 20

adj: Marked by imagination, resourcefulness

I was ingenous with my building in the jungle

Question 21

laggard

Answer 21

n. One who falls behind others becvause of moving slowly or loitering; a straggler

On the hike I was so tired so a was a laggard

Question 22

sustenance

Answer 22

adj. somehing that provides nourishment; food needed to live.
our garden was a sustenanance because we had every veggie and fruit imaginable

Question 23

torrid

Answer 23

adj. intensely hot or dry
The dessert was torrid
2 burning with passion
I had torrid for a girl who poushed me

Question 24

traverse

Answer 24

v. to pass over, accorss or through.
Route 66 traveses through most opf the USA

Question 25

zenith

Answer 25

n. The highest point; peak
2. The point in the sky directly above the observer

Mount everest zneith is very high

Question 26

Ubiquitous

Answer 26

adj. Appearing to be present in large numbers or in many different places

Tourtists are ubiquitous in Costa Rica

mobile phones have become ubiquitous”