Vocab 11

Question 1

Moderate, sparing ; characterized by abstinence and self-discipline

Answer 1

Abstemious

Question 2

Deserving of blame or correction

Answer 2

Censurable

Question 3

Likely but not certain to happen

Answer 3

Contingent

Question 4

To confirm, make more certain

Answer 4

Corroborate

Question 5

An inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

Answer 5

Denizen

Question 6

Passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another rambling

Answer 6

Discursive

Question 7

To scatter or spread widely

Answer 7

Disseminate

Question 8

Poorly dressed, shabby, lacking smartness

Answer 8

Dowdy

Question 9

Highly colored, reddish, showy

Answer 9

Florid

Question 10

To impose by fraud; to pass off as genuine; dishonesty

Answer 10

Foist

Question 11

Awkward, lacking in social graces, clumsy

Answer 11

Gauche

Question 12

An opinion different from accepted belief ; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred

Answer 12

Heresy

Question 13

To impress on the mind by repetition

Answer 13

Inculcate

Question 14

Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard

Answer 14

Palpable

Question 15

Having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation

Answer 15

Perceptive

Question 16

Extremely harmful ; deadly, fatal

Answer 16

Pernicious

Question 17

Leaping, jumping , or springing forth; standing out

Answer 17

Salient

Question 18

To satisfy completely ; to fill to excess

Answer 18

Satiate

Question 19

To make or become dry and withered

Answer 19

Sear

Question 20

Deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit

Answer 20

Specious