Vocab 2: F-J

Question 1

florid (adj)

Answer 1

flowery; showy; excessively ornate;

reddish, rosy.

synonyms: flamboyant, grandiloquent, rococo, flashy, gaudy

Question 2

iconoclastic (adj)

Answer 2

attacking or criticizing long held traditions or beliefs as being based on error, superstition or lack of creativity

destroying religious images.

iconoclast (n)

Question 3

indigent (adj)

Answer 3

needy, poor; impoverished; lacking life’s necessities due to poverty.

indigent (n)

synonyms: necessitous, penurious, distressed

Question 4

intractable (adj)

Answer 4

not easily controlled or directed; not docile; stuborn; obstinate;
hard to work with, treat, relieve or cure

synonyms:
headstrong, obdurate, willful;
fractious, adamant, unruly.

Question 5

irascible (adj)

Answer 5

easily angered or provoked; very irritable.

characterized or produced by anger (an irascible response)

Question 6

immaculate (adj)

Answer 6

spotless; free from impurity (moral or literal); pure

free from flaws

Question 7

irresolute (adj)

Answer 7

doubtful; vacillating; infirm or purpose

Question 8

felicitous (adj)

Answer 8

apt; appropriate;

having the ability for suitable manner or expression for different situations

Question 9

inordinate (adj)

Answer 9

not within reasonable/proper limits; excessive
unrestrained in conduct; disorderly; uncontrolled;
irregular (inordinate hours)

Question 10

grandiloquent (adj)

Answer 10

speaking pretentiously, pompously; bombastic

Question 11

hypocrite (n)

Answer 11

one who pretends to have virus, morals or principles that s/he doesn’t actually possess.
especially one whose actions belie states beliefs.

one whose actions or opinions belie his/her public statements.

synonym: pharisee

Question 12

fractious (adj)

Answer 12

unruly; easily angered; peevish; quarrelsome

synonyms: testy, petulant, waspish, pettish, captious

Question 13

gainsay (v)

Answer 13

to contradict, dispute, deny; to speak or act against, to oppose