Vocab 12

Question 1

impassive

Answer 1

expressionless

Question 2

imbibe

Answer 2

to receive into the mind; to absorb

Question 3

illusory

Answer 3

deceptive; producing an illusion

Question 4

husband

Answer 4

to be economical; to use sparingly; frugal

Question 5

mote

Answer 5

a small particle; morsel

Question 6

salient

Answer 6

prominent, conspicuous

Question 7

recidivism

Answer 7

a tendency to relapse into a previous behaviour (like in criminals)

Question 8

seraphic

Answer 8

angelic and sweet

Question 9

visceral

Answer 9

subjective rather than objective

Question 10

limber

Answer 10

flexible; malleable

Question 11

squalid

Answer 11

dilapidated

Question 12

stint

Answer 12

to be frugal

Question 13

portentous

Answer 13

foreshadowing and ominous; eliciting amazement and wonder

Question 14

importunate

Answer 14

troublesomely urgent; persisten in request or demand

Question 15

patent

Answer 15

obvious, evident

Question 16

patrician

Answer 16

aristocratic/aristocrat

Question 17

relegate

Answer 17

to banish, exile or expel

Question 18

reprove

Answer 18

to criticize or correct

Question 19

insensate

Answer 19

lacking sensibility and understanding; foolish

Question 20

sinecure

Answer 20

a well-paying job that requires little or no work

Question 21

preternatural

Answer 21

extraordinary, supernatural

Question 22

libertine

Answer 22

a free thinker, without moral restraint

Question 23

solicitous

Answer 23

eager, showing interest, anxious

Question 24

purport

Answer 24

to claim

Question 25

rankle

Answer 25

to cause anger and irritation

Question 26

pore

Answer 26

to peruse

Question 27

savant

Answer 27

a scholar, a student

Question 28

requite

Answer 28

to return (a favour or smthg like that)

Question 29

mordant

Answer 29

biting and caustic in manner

Question 30

wry

Answer 30

dry, mocking humour

Question 31

proffer

Answer 31

to hold out something to someone for acceptance

Question 32

progenitor

Answer 32

an ancestor

Question 33

yen

Answer 33

a strong desire or craving

Question 34

mutability

Answer 34

capable of change; flexible, malleable

Question 35

kismet

Answer 35

destiny, fate

Question 36

revile

Answer 36

to criticize harshly

Question 37

promulgate

Answer 37

to proclaim, to declare

Question 38

potentate

Answer 38

a ruler; someone with great power

Question 39

precipitously

Answer 39

done suddenly without careful consideration; impetuous

Question 40

presage

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something that foreshadows; harbinger

Question 41

lampoon

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to ridicule with satire

Question 42

sacrilegious

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impious; not religiously reverent, desecrate

Question 43

lecherous

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crude and offensive, usually in a sexual way

Question 44

prestidigitation

Answer 44

sleight of hand, legerdemain, magic trick

Question 45

levity

Answer 45

an inappropriate lack of seriousness; blithe, flippant

Question 46

sully

Answer 46

damage the purity of

Question 47

supersede

Answer 47

to be replaced

Question 48

proscribe

Answer 48

to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful

Question 49

malfeasance

Answer 49

wrongdoing or misconduct

Question 50

tremulous

Answer 50

timid, timorous