McCarthy Vocabulary

Question 1

accrued

Answer 1

to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.

Question 2

acolyte

Answer 2

a person assisting the celebrant in a religious service

Question 3

affable

Answer 3

pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly, cordial;warmly polite

Question 4

anathema

Answer 4

a person or thing detested or loathed

Question 5

androgyne

Answer 5

a being of ambiguous sexual identity; one that combines major aspects of both the male and the female

Question 6

cairn

Answer 6

a heap of stones set up as a landmark or monument

Question 7

consubstantial

Answer 7

of one and the same substance, essence, or nature

Question 8

conviviality

Answer 8

festive or agreeable

Question 9

corrugate

Answer 9

to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges

Question 10

coy

Answer 10

shy or reserved. hesitant

Question 11

crone

Answer 11

a withered, witchlike old woman

Question 12

culvert

Answer 12

a drain or channel crossing under a road or sidewalk

Question 13

dolorous

Answer 13

full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow, grievous; mournful

Question 14

doorjamb

Answer 14

either of the two side pieces of a doorframe

Question 15

fallow

Answer 15

plowed and left unseeded for a season or more, uncultivated

Question 16

furtive

Answer 16

sly, shifty

Question 17

gouts

Answer 17

a mass or splash, spurt

Question 18

hackles

Answer 18

the erectile hair on the back of an animal’s neck

Question 19

immiscible

Answer 19

incapable of being mixed

Question 20

incipient

Answer 20

beginning to exist or appear in an initial stage

Question 21

incunabular

Answer 21

the earliest stages or first traces of anything

Question 22

invective

Answer 22

a railing accusation

Question 23

irascible

Answer 23

easily provoked to anger

Question 24

limpid

Answer 24

clear

Question 25

malediction

Answer 25

a curse

Question 26

malevolent

Answer 26

evil

Question 27

miasma

Answer 27

a dangerous, foreboding or deathlike influence or atmosphere

Question 28

mortised

Answer 28

a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood made to receive something of the same dimensions

Question 29

mote

Answer 29

a small particle or speck

Question 30

oblique

Answer 30

sloping

Question 31

obsidian

Answer 31

a volcanic glass in thin pieces

Question 32

palpable

Answer 32

readily or plainly seen, heard, or perceived

Question 33

pariahs

Answer 33

an outcast

Question 34

penitent

Answer 34

feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing

Question 35

phalanx

Answer 35

a military formation. a compact or closely massed body of persons

Question 36

pinioned

Answer 36

to bind so they cannot be used

Question 37

portent

Answer 37

an indication or omen of something about to happen

Question 38

rectitude

Answer 38

rightness of principle,moral virtue

Question 39

remonstration

Answer 39

forceful protest

Question 40

ruminative

Answer 40

a repetitive chewing motion

Question 41

splayed

Answer 41

to spread out, expand, or extend

Question 42

spume

Answer 42

to eject or discharge as like foam or froth, spew

Question 43

tableau

Answer 43

a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene

Question 44

tautly

Answer 44

tightly drawn; tense; not slack

Question 45

triune

Answer 45

three in one, constituting a trinity in unity

Question 46

verdant

Answer 46

green with vegetation, covered with growing plants or grass

Question 47

viscera

Answer 47

the interstines, bowels

Question 48

wending

Answer 48

to pursue or direct, to proceed or go

Question 49

wry

Answer 49

bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing

Question 50

yaw

Answer 50

to deviate from a course

Question 51

accretion

Answer 51

an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.