Vocab 3-4

Question 1

Abstruse

Answer 1

Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed

Question 2

Affable

Answer 2

Friendly, courteous, amiable

Question 3

Audacity

Answer 3

Excessive boldness, rashness, daring

Question 4

Contrite

Answer 4

Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

Question 5

Credulous

Answer 5

Believing on slight evidence, gullible

Question 6

Depravity

Answer 6

Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

Question 7

Deprecate

Answer 7

To disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval

Question 8

Didactic

Answer 8

Instructive, designed to teach

Question 9

Dormant

Answer 9

Inactive, sleeping

Question 10

Enigmatic

Answer 10

Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling

Question 11

Erudite

Answer 11

Scholarly

Question 12

Exotic

Answer 12

Foreign, unfamiliar

Question 13

Fuse

Answer 13

To mix or join (usually by melting)

Question 14

Immutable

Answer 14

Unchanging

Question 15

Incorrigible

Answer 15

Incapable of being reformed or improved

Question 16

Loathe

Answer 16

To detest

Question 17

Mitigate

Answer 17

To cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe

Question 18

Nullify

Answer 18

To cause not to be in effect; to negate

Question 19

Pacifistic

Answer 19

Opposed to war or use of force

Question 20

Pretentious

Answer 20

Making an extravagant outward show, self-important

Question 21

Prologue

Answer 21

Introductory remarks in a speech, play, or literary work

Question 22

Recant

Answer 22

To withdraw or repudiate a statement or belief, to revoke

Question 23

Servile

Answer 23

Overly submissive

Question 24

Trepidation

Answer 24

Fear, trembling, agitation

Question 25

Vilify

Answer 25

To malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against

Question 26

Aesthetic

Answer 26

Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art

Question 27

Aloof

Answer 27

Apart, indifferent

Question 28

Archaic

Answer 28

Antiquated, old, out of use

Question 29

Assuage

Answer 29

To ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome

Question 30

Belie

Answer 30

To contradict, to give a false impression

Question 31

Contentious

Answer 31

Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

Question 32

Daunt

Answer 32

To intimidate, to dismay

Question 33

Debilitate

Answer 33

To weaken, to enfeeble

Question 34

Discord

Answer 34

Lack of agreement, tension, strife

Question 35

Dissemination

Answer 35

The act of spreading widely, scattering

Question 36

Dogmatic

Answer 36

Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner

Question 37

Duplicity

Answer 37

Double-dealing, hypocrisy

Question 38

Egocentric

Answer 38

Self-centered, selfish

Question 39

Euphemism

Answer 39

Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive

Question 40

Gluttonous

Answer 40

Greedy for food and drink

Question 41

Mundane

Answer 41

Ordinary, commonplace

Question 42

Ominous

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Threatening

Question 43

Petulance

Answer 43

Unreasonable touchiness or irritability

Question 44

Pompous

Answer 44

Exaggerated show of of dignity or self-importance, bombastic

Question 45

Precocious

Answer 45

Exceptionally early in development of occurrence

Question 46

Slothful

Answer 46

Lazy, indolent

Question 47

Trivia

Answer 47

Insignificant matters

Question 48

Verbose

Answer 48

Wordy, very talkative

Question 49

Virulent

Answer 49

Extremely poisonous, hateful

Question 50

Volatile

Answer 50

Quickly changeable, easily vaporized