2-8 Vocab

Question 1

Solicit

Answer 1

1. to ask or seek earnestly or pleadingly, or to petition on behalf of a cause;
2. to incite someone to and unlawful act;

Question 2

Vacillate

Answer 2

to switch indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another

Question 3

Confound

Answer 3

1. to experience bewildering, frustrating, arresting confustion throught an incapacity to make distinctions among a group of things

Question 4

Conflate

Answer 4

to fail to recognize or accept that there is a distinction between two things - and act/think instead as if they were the same thing

Question 5

Forsake

Answer 5

to abandon a person or principle to whom or to which one has pledged loyalty

Question 6

Inverse

Answer 6

reversed or turned inside out or mirrored in order, or relation, or effect

Question 7

Reciprocal

Answer 7

done, felt, or given back-and-forth “ in exchange “ from two sides

Question 8

Commiserate

Answer 8

to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for or “along with”

Question 9

Ephemeral

Answer 9

lasting or serving its function only briefly

Question 10

Evanescent

Answer 10

tending to vanish like vapor, almost instantaneously

Question 11

Anomaly

Answer 11

irregularity of or exception to an otherwise predictable or usual condition, motion, behavior

Question 12

Aberration

Answer 12

a significant deviation from or disruption of a norm

Question 13

Inexorable

Answer 13

unstoppable or unpreventable in a menacing sense

Question 14

Fatalism

Answer 14

pessimistic expectation that a bad outcome is predetermined or unalterable

Question 15

Peremptory

Answer 15

putting a swift end to all debate or action; not allowing contradiction or refusal

Question 16

Perfunctory

Answer 16

performed merely as a routine duty, without interest, care, or enthusiasm

Question 17

Precipitous

Answer 17

frighteningly steep; startling or recklessly hasty or sudden

Question 18

Vertiginous

Answer 18

causing sensation of dizziness, disorientation, imbalance, anxiety, especially as a reaction to a height or spinning, or steep angles

Question 19

Utilitarian

Answer 19

prioritizing immediate functionality, productivity, and cost- or time-efficiency

Question 20

Decadent

Answer 20

excessively, temptingly, indulgent, involving or risking self-corruption

Question 21

Seedy

Answer 21

Rundown, past-prime, neglected or shabby

Question 22

Finesse

Answer 22

graceful skill in handling delicate or difficult or unpredictable situations

Question 23

Facade

Answer 23

external front portion of a building

Question 24

Veneer

Answer 24

to cover with a thin layer of high-quality material