vocab 8

Question 1

suave

Answer 1

smoothly agreeable or polite, pleasing to the senses

Question 2

reprisal

Answer 2

an injury in return for an injury

Question 3

revel

Answer 3

to take pleasure in, a wild celebration

Question 4

ingenuous

Answer 4

innocent, simple; frank, sincere

Question 5

multifarious

Answer 5

having great variety, numerous and diverse

Question 6

obsolete

Answer 6

out of date, no longer in use

Question 7

recalcitrant

Answer 7

stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Question 8

condolence

Answer 8

an expression of sympathy

Question 9

parsimonious

Answer 9

stingy

Question 10

animosity

Answer 10

strong dislike, bitter hostility

Question 11

apathy

Answer 11

a lack of feeling, emotion or interest

Question 12

apprehensive

Answer 12

fearful of anxious, especially about the future

Question 13

commend

Answer 13

to praise, express approval, to present a worthy of attention, to commit to the care of

Question 14

consecrate

Answer 14

to make sacred, hollow, to set apart for a special purpose

Question 15

stultify

Answer 15

to make ineffective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on

Question 16

decrepit

Answer 16

old and feeble, worn out, ruined

Question 17

quandary

Answer 17

a state of perplexity or doubt

Question 18

omnivorous

Answer 18

eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes

Question 19

compatible

Answer 19

able to work well together, capable of use with another system

Question 20

deride

Answer 20

to ridicule, laugh at with contempt