Vocab 3

Question 0

Epigram

Answer 0

A short poem

Question 1

Levity

Answer 1

As a physical quality, light, having little weight, want of serious thought or reflection; frivolity

Question 2

fractious

Answer 2

refractory, unruly; now chiefly, cross, fretful, peevish; especially of children

Question 3

credulous

Answer 3

ready or disposed to believe, apt to believe on insufficient grounds

Question 4

fervent

Answer 4

hot burning, glowing; ardent, intensely earnest

Question 5

libel

Answer 5

to defame or discredit by the circulation of libelous statements; to accuse falsely and maliciously

Question 6

contiguous

Answer 6

touching, in actual contact, next in space; meeting at a common boundary, bordering, adjoining

Question 7

insolent

Answer 7

proud, disdainful, haughty, arrogant, overbearing; offensively contemptuous of the rights or feelings of others

Question 8

succulent

Answer 8

having a fleshy, juicy substance

Question 9

obstinate

Answer 9

firmly adhering to an opinion or chosen course of actions; inflexible, resolute, stubborn, self-willed; indicative of or characterized by inflexibility or stubbornness

Question 10

corrugated

Answer 10

marked as with wrinkles ie with parallel folds, ridges, or furrows

Question 11

nebulous

Answer 11

cloudy, misty, foggy, dank, opaque

Question 12

laudable

Answer 12

praiseworthy, commendable

Question 13

conceit

Answer 13

that which is conceived in the mind, a conception, notion, idea, thought; device; and elaborate or extended metaphor

Question 14

meretricious

Answer 14

alluring by false show; showily or superficially attractive but having in reality no value or integrity