HW#5 Problem Words

Question 0

Frivolity

Answer 0

Lack of seriousness; lightheartedness; levity; gaiety

Question 1

Inversion

Answer 1

Put upside down or in the opposite position

Question 2

Pontificate

Answer 2

Express one’s opinions in a way considered annoying pompous or dogmatic; dogmatize (represent as an incontrovertible truth)

Question 3

Assent

Answer 3

Acceptance; agreement

Question 4

Remuneration

Answer 4

Payment; salary

Question 5

Deliberation

Answer 5

Long and careful consideration or discussion

Question 6

Discomfit

Answer 6

Make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed

Question 7

Supercilious

Answer 7

Arrogant; haughty; conceited

Question 8

Avuncular

Answer 8

Kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person

Question 9

Interlocutor

Answer 9

A person who takes place in a dialogue or conversation

Question 10

Vestige

Answer 10

Remnant; fragment; relic; legacy;

Question 11

Quandary

Answer 11

Predicament

Question 12

Deplore

Answer 12

Feel or express strong disapproval

Question 13

Prevarication

Answer 13

Lie; speak falsely or misleadingly

Question 14

Forthrightness

Answer 14

Honesty

Question 15

Interface

Answer 15

A point where two things meet and interact

Question 16

Surety

Answer 16

Sponsor; money given to support an undertaking that someone will perform a duty, pay their debts, etc.; pledge; collateral

Question 17

Despoil

Answer 17

Pillage; rob; ransack

Question 18

Jocund

Answer 18

Cheerful; lighthearted

Question 19

Endenic

Answer 19

Delightful region or abode; paradise

Question 20

Exorbitant

Answer 20

Unreasonably high; extortionate; excessive