Vocab 1st 6 Weeks

Question 1

Nostalgic adj

Answer 1

A sentimental or wistful feeling for a time in the past

Question 2

Poignant adj

Answer 2

Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret, emotional, moving

Question 3

Facetious adj

Answer 3

Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor, can be seen as dark form sarcasm

Question 4

Foreboding adj

Answer 4

Implying or seeming to imply that something bad is going to happen

Question 5

Indignant adj

Answer 5

Extreme anger, outrage

Question 6

Melancholy adj

Answer 6

Extreme gloom, depression, and sorrow

Question 7

Whimsical adj

Answer 7

Fanciful and imaginative; capricious

Question 8

Cynical

Answer 8

Believing the worst in human nature and motives

Question 9

Enmity

Answer 9

Mutual hatred or hostility; Ill will

Question 10

Ensconce

Answer 10

Settle comfortably; fix firmly

Question 11

Apathy

Answer 11

Absence of emotion; indifference

Question 12

Preeminent

Answer 12

Greatest in degree, importance, significance, or achievement

Question 13

Cryptic

Answer 13

Mysterious, puzzling

Question 14

Derisive adj

Answer 14

Mocking

Contemptuous