Vocab 1,201 - 1,220

Question 1

Bibliotaph

Answer 1

– noun

1) a person who caches or hoards books.

Question 2

Nocturne

Answer 2

– noun

1) a musical piece appropriate to the night or evening.

Question 3

Pandiculation

Answer 3

– noun

1) the act of stretching and yawning.

Question 4

Oniomania

Answer 4

– noun

1) an uncontrollable desire to buy things.

Related forms
– oniomaniac, noun

Question 5

Gormandize

Answer 5

– verb

1) to eat greedily or ravenously.

Related forms
– gormandizer, noun

Question 6

Coiffure

Answer 6

– noun

1) a style of arranging or combing the hair.

Question 7

Eleemosynary

Answer 7

– adjective

1) dependent on or supported by charity: an eleemosynary educational institution.

Question 8

Cardinal

Answer 8

– adjective

1) of prime importance: of cardinal significance.

Question 9

Congenital

Answer 9

– adjective

1) having by nature a specified character: a congenital fool.

Question 10

Metastasize

Answer 10

– verb

1) to spread injuriously: Street gangs have metastasized in our city.

Question 11

Tribune

Answer 11

– noun

1) a person who upholds or defends the rights of the people.

Question 12

Vis-à-vis

Answer 12

– adverb / adjective / preposition

1) face to face or compared to:
- - They sat vis-à-vis at the table.
- - a vis-à-vis encounter.
- - income vis-à-vis expenditures.

Question 13

Furrow

Answer 13

– verb

1) to make wrinkles in the face: to furrow one’s brow.

Question 14

Amity

Answer 14

– noun

1) friendship; peaceful harmony.

Question 15

Fantabulous

Answer 15

– adjective

1) extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.

Question 16

Sine qua non (sahy-nee qua non)

Answer 16

– noun

1) something indispensable or essential: Her presence was the sine qua non of every social event.

Question 17

Tepid

Answer 17

– adjective

1) lukewarm: tepid water.

Question 18

Austerity

Answer 18

– noun

1) sternness or strict economy.

Question 19

Rigamarole

Answer 19

– noun

1) an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.

Question 20

Valorize

Answer 20

– verb

1) maintaining of the value or price of a commodity via government purchasing of the commodity at the fixed price.

Related forms
– valorization, noun