English Vocab Quiz 1

Question 1

Aggrandize

Answer 1

To make greater, richer, more powerful

To exaggerate

Question 2

Banal

Answer 2

Lacking freshness or originality; commonplace, ordinary

Question 3

Chicanery

Answer 3

Trickery, especially in legal dealings; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate

Question 4

Denote

Answer 4

To indicate

Question 5

Entrepreneur

Answer 5

One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss

Question 6

Fetish

Answer 6

An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefor worshiped

Anything irrationally reverenced; obsession

Question 7

Heinous

Answer 7

Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable

Question 8

Pensive

Answer 8

Thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things

Question 9

Pique

Answer 9

To evoke resentment in

To arouse

Question 10

Plaintive

Answer 10

Expressing sorrow; mournful

Question 11

Trenchant

Answer 11

Forceful and effective; keen penetrating

Question 12

Verdant

Answer 12

Green with growing plants or grass; green in colour

Unripe in knowledge or judgement; unsophisticated

Question 13

mis-

Answer 13

Hater, hatred

Question 14

-ac, -iac

Answer 14

Pertaining to

Question 15

-men

Answer 15

Result of

Question 16

AGON

Answer 16

Struggle, contest

Question 17

CAD, CAS, CID,

Answer 17

To fall, to befall, to happen

Question 18

DIC, DICT

Answer 18

To say

Question 19

FER

Answer 19

To bear, to carry

Question 20

JUR

Answer 20

To swear

Question 21

MORT

Answer 21

Death

Question 22

OMNI

Answer 22

All

Question 23

PENDS, PENS

Answer 23

To hang, to weigh, to pay