screwtape letters vocab

Question 1

puerile

Answer 1

childishly foolish; immature or trivial

Question 2

milksops

Answer 2

milksops
a weak or ineffectual person

Question 3

pernicious

Answer 3

causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

Question 4

undulation

Answer 4

series of wavelike bends, curves, or elevations

Question 5

pedantic

Answer 5

ostentatious in one’s learning

Question 6

hedonist

Answer 6

a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification

Question 7

avarice

Answer 7

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

Question 8

rapacious

Answer 8

inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate

Question 9

endemic

Answer 9

natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous

Question 10

feckless

Answer 10

ineffective; incompetent; futile

Question 11

foment

Answer 11

to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of

Question 12

philological

Answer 12

the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning

Question 13

innocuous

Answer 13

not harmful or injurious; harmless

Question 14

anodyne

Answer 14

anything that relieves distress or pain

Question 15

redolent

Answer 15

suggestive; reminiscent

Question 16

urbane

Answer 16

reflecting elegance, sophistication

Question 17

lasciviousness

Answer 17

given to or expressing lust; lecherous

Question 18

jocular

Answer 18

given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious

Question 19

insipid

Answer 19

without distinctive, interesting, or stimulation qualities; vapid

Question 20

panacea

Answer 20

an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties

Question 21

insolent

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boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting

Question 22

qualms

Answer 22

an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction

Question 23

scruples

Answer 23

a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions

Question 24

inculcating

Answer 24

to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly

Question 25

paradoxical

Answer 25

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth