Vocab 12

Question 1

Allotment

Answer 1

A portion or thing allotted; a share granted

Question 2

Crucible

Answer 2

A container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures

Question 3

Salutary

Answer 3

Favorable to or promoting health; healthful

Question 4

Abdicate

Answer 4

To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manners

Question 5

Magnitude

Answer 5

Size; extend; dimensions

Question 6

Anguish

Answer 6

Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain

Question 7

Solace

Answer 7

Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort

Question 8

Insidious

Answer 8

Intended to entrap or beguile

Question 9

Subjugation

Answer 9

The act, fact, or process oh subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement

Question 10

Supplication

Answer 10

An act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition

Question 11

Remonstrate

Answer 11

To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval

Question 12

Spurn

Answer 12

To reject with disdain; scorn

Question 13

Contempt

Answer 13

The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn

Question 14

Inviolate

Answer 14

Free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage

Question 15

Base

Answer 15

Morally low, dishonorable, selfish

Question 16

Formidable

Answer 16

Causing fear, apprehension, or dread

Question 17

Invincible

Answer 17

Incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued

Question 18

Vigilant

Answer 18

Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary

Question 19

Extenuate

Answer 19

To represent (a fault, offense, etc) as less serious

Question 20

Impel

Answer 20

To drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action

Question 21

Abolish

Answer 21

To do away with; put an end to; annul; make void

Question 22

Transient

Answer 22

Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory

Question 23

Usurp

Answer 23

To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right

Question 24

Evince

Answer 24

To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove

Question 25

Constrain

Answer 25

To force, compel, or oblige

Question 26

Relinquish

Answer 26

To renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc)

Question 27

Render

Answer 27

To cause to be or become; make

Question 28

Perfidy

Answer 28

Deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery

Question 29

Consanguinity

Answer 29

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship

Question 30

Acquiesce

Answer 30

To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent

Question 31

Redress

Answer 31

The setting right of what’s wrong

Question 32

Warranted

Answer 32

Authorization, sanction, or justification

Question 33

Conjure

Answer 33

To affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell

Question 34

Kindred

Answer 34

A persons relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin

Question 35

Oxymoron

Answer 35

A figure of speech producing a self contradictory effect (icy heat)