Round 3 - Vocab.com top 1000

Question 1

assiduous

Answer 1

marked by care and persistent effort

Question 2

vassal

Answer 2

a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

Question 3

quail

Answer 3

draw back, as with fear or pain; to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.

Question 4

gird

Answer 4

prepare oneself for a military confrontation

Question 5

advert

Answer 5

make reference to; to remark or comment; turn attention to

Question 6

peremptory

Answer 6

not allowing contradiction or refusal; leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative; imperious or dictatorial

Question 7

rudiment

Answer 7

the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)

Question 8

ignominy

Answer 8

a state of dishonor; disgrace; public contempt;

shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct

Question 9

ideology

Answer 9

an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

Question 10

pallid

Answer 10

lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

Question 11

chagrin

Answer 11

a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation; strong feelings of embarrassment/mortification;

Question 12

obtrude

Answer 12

thrust oneself in as if by force

Question 13

audacious

Answer 13

disposed to venture or take risks; extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless; extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive; in defiance of convention/propriety/law

Question 14

ford

Answer 14

to cross a shallow river; a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading

Question 15

repast

Answer 15

a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating; a meal or mealtime

Question 16

stint

Answer 16

to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance; to restrict; an allotted/unbroken period of time

Question 17

hew

Answer 17

make or shape as with an axe; to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows; to sever from a whole by cutting blows

Question 18

parity

Answer 18

functional equality; equality, as in amount, status, or character; equivalence; correspondence; similarity; analogy.

Question 19

affable

Answer 19

diffusing warmth and friendliness; pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite

Question 20

interminable

Answer 20

tiresomely long; seemingly without end; monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant; having no limits

Question 21

foreboding

Answer 21

a prediction; portent; a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment

Question 22

portent

Answer 22

an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous; threatening or disquieting significance

Question 23

rend

Answer 23

tear or be torn/ separate into parts violently; to harrow or distress (the heart) with painful feelings

Question 24

deign

Answer 24

do/give/grant something that one considers to be below one’s dignity
; to think fit or in accordance with one’s dignity; condescend

Question 25

capriciousness

Answer 25

determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

Question 26

chaff

Answer 26

worthless matter; refuse; the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.

Question 27

reverie

Answer 27

an abstracted state of absorption; a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing

Question 28

wrangle

Answer 28

to quarrel noisily, angrily, or disruptively

Question 29

ostensible

Answer 29

appearing as such but not necessarily so; outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended; evident or conspicuous

Question 30

craven

Answer 30

lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous

Question 31

pusillanimous

Answer 31

lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid; proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit

Question 32

vestige

Answer 32

an indication/trace that something has been present; a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice

Question 33

plumb

Answer 33

examine thoroughly and in great depth; in a perpendicular or vertical direction; exactly, precisely, or directly

Question 34

reticent

Answer 34

temperamentally disinclined to talk

Question 35

espouse

Answer 35

choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

Question 36

raiment

Answer 36

especially fine or decorative clothing/attire

Question 37

intrepid

Answer 37

invulnerable to fear or intimidation; resolutely fearless; dauntless

Question 38

seemly

Answer 38

according with custom or propriety

Question 39

allay

Answer 39

lessen the intensity of or calm; appease; placate

Question 40

warble

Answer 40

sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

Question 41

mien

Answer 41

dignified manner or conduct; air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling,

Question 42

sate

Answer 42

fill to satisfaction; to fill to excess; surfeit; glut.

Question 43

constituency

Answer 43

the body of voters who elect a representative for their area

Question 44

patrician

Answer 44

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; high rank; a person of very good background, education, and refinement

Question 45

parry

Answer 45

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); to ward off/ evade

Question 46

ravel

Answer 46

to entangle, tangle; to involve, confuse, perplex (also means to UNravel!?!?!)

Question 47

actuate

Answer 47

to incite or move to action; impel; motivate; to start a process

Question 48

surly

Answer 48

churlishly rude or bad-tempered; inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; dark, dismal, menacingly irritable

Question 49

convalesce

Answer 49

to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.

Question 50

demoralize

Answer 50

lower someone's spirits; make downhearted