List 1 Vocab

Question 1

abjure

Answer 1

(v.) to reject, renounce (To prove her honesty, the president abjured the evil policies of
her wicked predecessor.)

Question 2

assiduous

Answer 2

(adj.) hard-working, diligent (The construction workers erected the skyscraper during
two years of assiduous labor.

Question 3

cogent

Answer 3

(adj.) intellectually convincing (Irene’s arguments in favor of abstinence were so cogent
that the class could not argue against them.)

Question 4

deprecate

Answer 4

(v.) to belittle, depreciate (Always over-modest, Alex deprecated his contribution to
the local charity.)

Question 5

enervate

Answer 5

(v.) to weaken, exhaust (Writing these sentences enervates me so much that I will
have to take a nap after I finish.)

Question 6

fallacious

Answer 6

(adj.) incorrect, misleading (Emily offered her new friend cigarettes on the fallacious
assumption that she smoked.)

Question 7

hapless

Answer 7

(adj.) unlucky (My poor, hapless family never seems to pick a sunny week to go on
vacation.)

Question 8

incontrovertible

Answer 8

(adj.) indisputable (Only stubborn Tina would attempt to disprove the
incontrovertible laws of physics.)

Question 9

jubilant

Answer 9

(adj.) extremely joyful, happy (The crowd was jubilant when the firefighter carried the
elderly woman from the flaming building.)

Question 10

mawkish

Answer 10

(adj.) characterized by sick sentimentality (Although some nineteenth-century critics
viewed Dickens’s writing as mawkish, contemporary readers have found great emotional depth
in his works.)