Vocab 2s

Question 1

adjourn

Answer 1

to suspend the meeting of (a club, meeting, legislature) to a future time, another place

Question 2

alien

Answer 2

born in or belong to another country; a person who has ben estranged or excluded, extraterrestrial

Question 3

comely

Answer 3

pleasing in appearance, attractive, fair, proper, seemly, becoming

Question 4

compensate

Answer 4

to recompense for something; to counterbalance, offset, be equivalent to, Mech, to counterbalance, (a force or the like)

Question 5

dissolute

Answer 5

indifferent to moral restraints, given to immoral or improper conduct, licentious, dissipated

Question 6

expulsion

Answer 6

the act of driving out or expelling, the state of being expelled

Question 7

erratic

Answer 7

deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion, eccentric, queer, having no certain or definite course, wandering, not fixing

Question 8

feint

Answer 8

a movement made in order to desieve an adversary,

Question 9

fodder

Answer 9

course food for livestock; people considered as readily available and of little vale; raw materials

Question 10

fortify

Answer 10

to protect or strengthen against attack; to furnish with means of resisting force; to make strong, impart strength or vigor to

Question 11

illegible

Answer 11

not legible; impossible or hard to decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print

Question 12

jeer

Answer 12

to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely; to shout derisively at, taunt, to treat with scoffs or derision; mock

Question 13

lucrative

Answer 13

profitable, money making, remunerate

Question 14

mediocre

Answer 14

of only ordinary, moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate, rather poor or inferior

Question 15

proliferate

Answer 15

to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division; or by procreation; to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively

Question 16

subjugate

Answer 16

to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer, master, to make submissive or subservient; enslave

Question 17

sully

Answer 17

to soil, stain, or tarnish; to mar the purity or luster of; defile

Question 18

tantalize

Answer 18

to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired, but out of reach, tease by arousing or expectations that are repeatedly dissapointed

Question 19

terse

Answer 19

neatly or effectively concise, brief and pithy, as language, abruptly concise, curt, brusque

Question 20

unflinchining

Answer 20

not flinching, unshrinking