Vocab Week 5

Question 0

Candid

Answer 0

Truthful and straightforward; frank

Question 1

Condescending

Answer 1

Having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority

Question 2

Salacious

Answer 2

Lustful, lecherous

Synonym: prurient

Question 3

Reticent

Answer 3

Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

Question 4

Altruistic

Answer 4

showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish.

Question 5

Stoic

Answer 5

a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

Question 6

Macabre

Answer 6

disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

Question 7

Idyllic

Answer 7

(especially of a time or place) like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.

Question 8

Hyperbolic

Answer 8

(of language) exaggerated; hyperbolical.

Question 9

Rhetorical

Answer 9

(of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information.

Question 10

Apologetic

Answer 10

regretfully acknowledging or excusing an offense or failure.

Question 11

Ephemeral

Answer 11

Lasting for a very short time

Question 12

Pedantic

Answer 12

Scrupulous,precise,exact

Question 13

Didactic

Answer 13

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
Synonym:edification

Question 14

Introspective

Answer 14

Inward-looking, self-analyzing

Question 15

Capricious

Answer 15

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.

Question 16

Misogynistic

Answer 16

reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
Ex: of mice and men curley’s wife

Question 17

Patronizing

Answer 17

treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority. Condescending

Question 18

Dogmatic

Answer 18

inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

Authoritarian

Question 19

Droll

Answer 19

curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

Humorous