Vocab List 10

Question 1

Ancillary

Answer 1

Adj- Subordinate; secondary

Question 2

Assiduous

Answer 2

Adj- Constant in application or attention; diligent

Question 3

Audacity

Answer 3

N- Fearless Daring; intrepidity

Question 4

Articulate

Answer 4

Adj- Endowed with the power of speech

Question 5

Beguile

Answer 5

V- To deceive by guile; delude

Question 6

Centrifugal

Answer 6

Adj- Moving or directed away from a center or axis

Question 7

Concomitant

Answer 7

Adj- Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant

Question 8

Deference

Answer 8

N- Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion

Question 9

Dolefully

Answer 9

Adj- Very sad

Question 10

Elucidate

Answer 10

V- to make (something that is hard to understand) clear or easy to understand

Question 11

Extricate

Answer 11

V- to free or remove (someone or something) from something (such as a trap or a difficult situation)

Question 12

Floundering

Answer 12

V- to move in an awkward way with a lot of difficulty and effort : to be unsure about what to do or say : to have a lot of problems and difficulties

Question 13

Garrulous

Answer 13

Adj- tending to talk a lot : very talkative

Question 14

Gasconade

Answer 14

N- Bravado, boasting

Question 15

Haggard

Answer 15

Adj- looking very thin and tired especially from great hunger, worry, or pain

Question 16

Imbue

Answer 16

V- to cause (someone or something) to be deeply affected by a feeling or to have a certain quality

Question 17

Inert

Answer 17

Adj- unable to move : moving or acting very slowly

Question 18

Incongruous

Answer 18

Adj- strange because of not agreeing with what is usual or expected

Question 19

Inviolable

Answer 19

Adj- too important to be ignored or treated with disrespect

Question 20

Mountebank

Answer 20

N- a dishonest person : a person who tricks and cheats other people

Question 21

Meretricious

Answer 21

Adj- attractive in a cheap or false way

Question 22

Niche

Answer 22

N- a job, activity, etc., that is very suitable for someone : the situation in which a business’s products or services can succeed by being sold to a particular kind or group of people : an environment that has all the things that a particular plant or animal needs in order to live