Character vocab

Question 1

neophyte

Answer 1

a beginner or novice

Question 2

narcissist

Answer 2

a person who is overly self-involved and often vain and selfish

Question 3

ignoramus

Answer 3

an extremely ignorant person

Question 4

curmudgeon

Answer 4

bad-tempered, cranky

Question 5

cavalier

Answer 5

courtly gentleman, gallant, chivalrous man

Question 6

enigma

Answer 6

a person of puzzling or contradictory character

Question 7

heretic

Answer 7

believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by the church, controversial opinions

Question 8

stumblebum

Answer 8

clumsy, incompetent person

Question 9

iconoclast

Answer 9

person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions as being based on error or supersition

Question 10

pariah

Answer 10

an outcast

Question 11

philatelist

Answer 11

person who collect stamps

Question 12

philanthropist

Answer 12

a person who donates a lot to advance human welfare

Question 13

transient

Answer 13

not lasting or permanent, one who comes and goes

Question 14

bohemian

Answer 14

person who lives and acts free for conventional rules and practices with artistic/literary interests

Question 15

plebian

Answer 15

pertaining to the common people, member of lower classes

Question 16

prodigal son

Answer 16

wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him

Question 17

satyr

Answer 17

a man given to excessive sexual indulgence

Question 18

turncoat

Answer 18

disloyal person, traitor

Question 19

xenophobe

Answer 19

person who hates or fears foreigners

Question 20

zealot

Answer 20

fanatically committed person

Question 21

cuckold

Answer 21

the husband of an unfaithful wife

Question 22

strumpet

Answer 22

prostitute

Question 23

milquetoast

Answer 23

very timid, spineless pushover, weakling

Question 24

nebbish

Answer 24

overly timid pitiful person

Question 25

lothario

Answer 25

man who obsessively seduces and deceives women