Vocab List 7

Question 1

Accolade

Answer 1

N- An award or an expression of praise

Question 2

Apotheosis

Answer 2

N- The perfect form or example of something

The highest or best part of something

Question 3

Adroit

Answer 3

Adj- Very clever or skillful

Question 4

Banal

Answer 4

Adj- Boring or ordinary; not interesting

Question 5

Castigate

Answer 5

V- To criticize (someone) harshly

Question 6

Consternation

Answer 6

N- A strong feeling of surprise or sudden disappointment that causes confustion

Question 7

Crass

Answer 7

Adj- Having or showing no understanding of what is proper or acceptable; rude and insesitive

Question 8

Discernible

Answer 8

V- To detect with eyes; to detect with senses other than vision; to recognize or identify as separate and distinct; to come to know or recognize mentally

Question 9

Dogmatic

Answer 9

Adj- Expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are certainly correct and cannot be doubted

Question 10

Effrontery

Answer 10

N- A very confident attitude or way of behaving that is shocking or rude

Question 11

Extemporaneous

Answer 11

Adj- Made up or done without special preparation

Question 12

Gauche

Answer 12

Adj- Having or showing a lack of awareness about the proper way to behave; social awkward

Question 13

Incarnate

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Adj- Having a human body

Question 14

Insinuate

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V- to say (bad or insulting) in an indirect way; to gradually make (yourself) a part of a group or person’s life, often by behaving in a dishonest way

Question 15

Matriculate

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V- To become a student at a school and especially in a college or university

Question 16

Obscure

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Adj- Not well-known; not known to most people; difficult to understand; likely to be understood by only a few people; difficult or impossible to know completely and with certainty.

Question 17

Parsimonious

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Adj- Very unwilling to spend money

Question 18

Peripatetic

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N- A follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism; pedestrian; movement or journeys hither and thither

Question 19

Purloin

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V- To appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust

Question 20

Scrupulous

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Adj- Very careful about doing something correctly; careful about doing what is honest and morally right

Question 21

Stagnate

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V- To become or remain not flowing/changing

Question 22

Tenets

Answer 22

N- A belief or idea that is very important to a group