English Vocab 3

Question 0

Blight

Answer 0

n. 1. A plant disease that causes the affected parts to wilt and die. 2. Something that causes this condition, such as air pollution. 3. Something that impairs or destroys. 4. An unsightly object or area.

Question 1

Bane

Answer 1

n. 1. Cause of trouble, misery, distress, or harm. 2. Poison.

Question 2

Broach

Answer 2

v. 1. To bring up, introduce, in order to begin a discussion of. 2. To tap or pierce, as in to draw off liquid.

Question 3

Cadge

Answer 3

v. To beg, to obtain by begging.

Question 4

Caste

Answer 4

n. A distinct social class or system.

Question 5

Daunt

Answer 5

v. To intimidate, to make afraid or discourage.

Question 6

Deign

Answer 6

v. To condescend; to unwillingly do something thought to be beneath one’s dignity; to lower oneself.

Question 7

Dross

Answer 7

n. 1. Waste product, sludge. 2. Something worthless, commonplace, or trivial.

Question 8

Eke

Answer 8

v. To get or supplement with great effort or strain; to earn or accomplish laboriously.

Question 9

Feign

Answer 9

v. To pretend; to give the false appearance of.

Question 10

Flout

Answer 10

v. To disobey openly and scornfully; to reject, mock, go against (as in tradition or convention)

Question 11

Guile

Answer 11

n. Treacherous cunning; shrewd, crafty deceit.

Question 12

Ire

Answer 12

n. Anger, wrath.

Question 13

Mete

Answer 13

v. To distribute, allot, apportion.

Question 14

Mirth

Answer 14

n. Great merriment, joyous laughter.

Question 15

Moot

Answer 15

adj. debatable, undecided.

Question 16

Pith

Answer 16

n. 1. The essential or central part; the heart or essence (of the matter, idea, experience, etc.) 2. (In biology) the soft, sponge-like central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants.

Question 17

Quail

Answer 17

v. To draw back in fear; flinch, cower.

Question 18

Roil

Answer 18

v. 1. To make a liquid cloudy or muddy. 2. To stir up or agitate. 3. To anger or annoy.

Question 19

Teem

Answer 19

v. To be full of; to be present in large numbers.