Vocabulary Quiz 1

Question 0

Disconsolate.

Answer 0

Hopelessly sad, cheerless, causing dejection

Question 1

Incessantly(adv.)

Answer 1

Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing

Question 2

Predicament

Answer 2

A difficult, trying, or perplexing situation; a dilemma

Question 3

Gamut

Answer 3

An entire range or series

Question 4

Vexation

Answer 4

Irritation, troubling, affliction disturbance distress

Question 5

Pauper

Answer 5

One who receives money from public poor funds; a very poor person

Question 6

Adulation

Answer 6

Intense or excessive admiration, flattery, or praise

Question 7

Aghast

Answer 7

Struck with terror, amazement, or horror; shocked

Question 8

Privations

Answer 8

Hardships, lack of what is needed or existence, for a happy, healthy life

Question 9

Exorbitant

Answer 9

Excessive, exceeding intensity, quality, or size of the appropriate or customary limits

Question 10

Amenities

Answer 10

That which contributes to material comforts or conveniences

Question 11

Affable

Answer 11

Gentle, gracious; being pleasant, at ease talking to others

Question 12

Imprudent

Answer 12

Unwise

Question 13

Surmounted

Answer 13

Rise superior to; overcome

Question 14

Droll

Answer 14

Having a humorous, whimsical or odd quality; laughable

Question 15

Invariably

Answer 15

Not changing or capable of change; constant, always

Question 16

Sallow

Answer 16

Of a greyish greenish yellow color, having a sickly hue or complexion

Question 17

Venerable

Answer 17

Commanding respect by virtue of age, character, dignity, or position

Question 18

Uncanny

Answer 18

Peculiarly unsettling, as if supernatural nature or origin, unnatural, eerie, being beyond what is normal or expected.

Question 19

protruding

Answer 19

To jut out from the surroundings