Vocab 2

Question 1

PLATONIC

Answer 1

a relationship / friendship that is intimate and affectionate but NOT sexual in nature

Question 2

PENSIVE

Answer 2

thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things

Question 3

OPPROBRIUM

Answer 3

the disgrace attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful

Question 4

QUERULOUS

Answer 4

inclined to find fault; complaining

Question 5

TRENCHANT

Answer 5

keen, penetrating [trenchant words]; forceful, effective [trenchant argument]

Question 6

VAPID

Answer 6

uninteresting, lifeless, dull, boring, insipid

Question 7

OFFICIOUS

Answer 7

meddlesome; offering unwanted advice or services; assertive of authority in an annoyingly

domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters

Question 8

LITERATI

Answer 8

scholarly or learned people—especially well-educated people who are interested in literature

Question 9

MEANDER

Answer 9

to take a winding course; to wander aimlessly

Question 10

SALUBRIOUS

Answer 10

promoting health or welfare; healthful

Question 11

PREVARICATE

Answer 11

to evade the truth; to lie

Question 12

PARSIMONIOUS

Answer 12

miserly, unreasonably economical

Question 13

MUNDANE

Answer 13

commonplace, ordinary, everyday

Question 14

SALIENT

Answer 14

most noticeable or important; standing out from the rest; a piece of land or section of fortification that just

our to form an angle

Question 14

JUXTAPOSE

Answer 14

to put side by side or close together

Question 14

NEFARIOUS

Answer 14

very wicked, villainous; criminal

Question 15

VITUPERATION

Answer 15

abusive language

Question 16

OBSEQUIOUS

Answer 16

showing too great a willingness to serve or obey; fawning

Question 17

PUNCTILIOUS

Answer 17

very careful about every detail of behavior, ceremony

Question 18

TACITURN

Answer 18

uncommunicative, almost always silent

Question 19

VICARIOUS

Answer 19

taking the place of another thing or person; endured or suffered by one person for
another; shared in or experienced by imagined participation in another’s
experience

Question 20

SUPERCILIOUS

Answer 20

disdainful or contemptuous; characterized by pride or scorn

Question 21

POLEMIC

Answer 21

controversial; argumentative; an argument or controversial discussion

Question 22

LUGUBRIOUS

Answer 22

very sad or mournful: in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous

Question 23

MALINGER

Answer 23

to pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or