Vocab 1,521 - 1,540

Question 1

Idiolect

Answer 1

– noun

1) a person’s individual speech pattern.

Question 2

Bereave

Answer 2

– verb

1) to deprive and make desolate, especially by death: Illness bereaved them of their mother.

Question 3

Halcyon

Answer 3

– adjective

1) calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.

Question 4

Variegation

Answer 4

– noun

1) Something that is variegated.

Question 5

Bedraggled

Answer 5

– adjective

1) limp and soiled, as with rain or dirt.

Question 6

Troglodyte

Answer 6

– noun

1) a prehistoric cave dweller.

Question 7

Voracious

Answer 7

– adjective

1) craving or consuming large quantities of food:
a voracious appetite.

Question 8

Lawyerly

Answer 8

– adjective

1) resembling a lawyer or lawyers: These are our buildings, not the exclusive domain of lawyerly folk in wigs and gowns.

Question 9

Exfiltrate

Answer 9

– verb

1) to smuggle out of an area under enemy control.

Question 10

Intemperate

Answer 10

– adjective

1) not temperate; unrestrained; unbridled.

Question 11

Punctuate

Answer 11

– verb

1) to interrupt at intervals: Cheers punctuated the mayor’s speech.
2) to give emphasis or force to.

Question 12

Arcana

Answer 12

– noun

1) secrets or mysteries: his knowledge of federal budget arcana is legendary.

Question 13

Confabulate

Answer 13

– verb

1) to converse informally; chat.

Question 14

Deracinate

Answer 14

– verb

1) to pull up by the roots or to isolate one from a native or customary environment.

Question 15

Conduit

Answer 15

– noun

1) a pipe, tube, or some natural passage for conveying something.

Question 16

Reprehensible

Answer 16

– adjective

1) deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.

Question 17

Nom de guerre

Answer 17

– noun

1) pseudonym / an assumed name, as one under which a person fights/works/etc.

Question 18

Stem-winder

Answer 18

– adjective

1) something remarkable of its kind.

Question 19

Boondoggle

Answer 19

– noun

1) waste of money or time on unnecessary/questionable projects.

Question 20

Bedevil

Answer 20

– verb

1) to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically.