Round 4 - Vocab.com top 1000

Question 1

devolve

Answer 1

grow worse; to transfer or delegate (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to or upon another; pass on (usually w/ a bad connotation)

Question 2

recriminate/recrimination

Answer 2

to countercharge and accuser; accuse in return

Question 3

alacrity

Answer 3

cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; eagerness; liveliness; briskness; keenness, zeal

Question 4

waive

Answer 4

do without or cease to hold or adhere to; refrain from doing or insisting upon; forgo; relinquish intentionally

Question 5

unwonted

Answer 5

out of the ordinary; not customary or usual; rare as in “unwonted kindness”

Question 6

seethe

Answer 6

to be in a state of agitation or excitement

Question 7

scrutinize

Answer 7

to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

Question 8

diffident

Answer 8

lacking in self-confidence, worth, or fitness; restrained or reserved in manner/conduct

Question 9

execrate

Answer 9

curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment; to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce

Question 10

anathema

Answer 10

a person or thing detested or loathed:
“That subject is anathema to him.”

a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.

a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.

any imprecation of divine punishment.

Question 11

imprecation OR malediction

Answer 11

curse; malediction; the act of cursing

imprecate: to invoke curses upon a person

Question 12

implacable

Answer 12

not to be appeased/mollified/pacified; inexorable

Question 13

inexorable

Answer 13

unyielding/unalterable; unable to be moved/persuaded by pleads or entreaties

Question 14

entreaty

Answer 14

supplication; earnest request or petition

Question 15

pique

Answer 15

a sudden outburst of anger; to arouse emotion or excite; to affect with sharp irritation or resentment; to wound someone’s pride/vanity

Question 16

mite

Answer 16

a slight but appreciable amount; a contribution that is small but all a person can afford

Question 17

uncouth

Answer 17

lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly; strange or ungraceful

Question 18

petulant

Answer 18

easily irritated or annoyed; moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance

Question 19

expiate

Answer 19

make amends or reparation for

Question 20

cavalier

Answer 20

given to haughty disregard of others; offhand or supercilious; disdainful

one having the spirit or bearing of a knight; a courtly gentleman; gallant; a man escorting a woman or acting as her partner in dancing

Question 21

supercilious

Answer 21

haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression

Question 22

repartee

Answer 22

a quick, witty reply; skill in making such replies; conversations full of banter

Question 23

bluster

Answer 23

act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner; to roar and be tumultuous, as wind; to be loud, noisy, or swaggering; utter loud, empty menaces or protests; to force or accomplish by blustering; noisy empty threats or protests; inflated talk

Question 24

debase

Answer 24

adulterate; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; to lower in rank, dignity, or significance; to reduce in character or value

Question 25

retainer

Answer 25

a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

Question 26

subjugate

Answer 26

make subservient; force to submit or subdue

Question 27

extol

Answer 27

praise, glorify, or honor

Question 28

fraught

Answer 28

laden/attended/filled with

Question 29

august

Answer 29

profoundly honored; inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic; venerable; eminent

Question 30

fissure

Answer 30

a long narrow depression in a surface; a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain; to cleave or split

Question 31

knoll

Answer 31

small natural hill or eminence

Question 32

inculcate

Answer 32

teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; teach persistently or earnestly

Question 33

nettle

Answer 33

cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

Question 34

blanch

Answer 34

turn pale, as if in fear or sickness

Question 35

inscrutable

Answer 35

of an obscure nature; physically impenetrable incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable

Question 36

thrall

Answer 36

the state of being under the control of another person; a person in bondage; slave; morally or mentally enslaved by some power/influence

Question 37

exigency

Answer 37

a pressing or urgent situation; the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency

Question 38

disconsolate

Answer 38

sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

Question 39

impetus

Answer 39

a force that moves something along

Question 40

auspices

Answer 40

kindly endorsement and guidance; patronage; support; sponsorship; a favorable sign or propitious circumstance; prognostication or divination

Question 41

propitious

Answer 41

presenting favorable conditions; favorable; auspicious

Question 42

prognostication

Answer 42

premonition or prediction or forecast

Question 43

sonorous

Answer 43

full and loud and deep; giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place i.e. a cave; resonant; rich and full in sound as in language; high-flown speech; grandiloquent

Question 44

grandiloquent

Answer 44

speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic

Question 45

dint

Answer 45

interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'; force or power; to impress or drive in with force; make a dent ex. By dint of hard work she became head of the company.

Question 46

zenith antonym: nadir

Answer 46

a highest point or state; the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Question 47

voluble/loquacious

Answer 47

marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; glib; talkative

Question 48

glib

Answer 48

readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unrestrained in manner or actions having only superficial plausibility

Question 49

yeoman

Answer 49

servant; attendant; subordinate; in former times was free and cultivated his own land; one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated their own land, early admitted in England to political rights

Question 50

levity

Answer 50

a manner lacking seriousness; lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness