Vocab 3

Question 1

Circumspect

Answer 1

Cautious, not a risk taker

Question 2

Didactic

Answer 2

Intending to teach, in the manner of a teacher

Question 3

Ingenuous

Answer 3

Sincere, innocent, unsuspecting (not a threat)

Question 4

Perfunctory

Answer 4

Routine tasks that don’t take a lot of effort

Question 5

Prodigal

Answer 5

When something is overdone; waste fully extravagant

Question 6

Qualify

Answer 6

To give necessary skill or knowledge

Question 7

Reprove

Answer 7

To criticize or correct

Question 8

Xenophobia

Answer 8

Fear of anything foreign

Question 9

Zenith

Answer 9

Highest point or state

Question 10

Ambiguity

Answer 10

Uncertainty or not exact in meaning

Question 11

Antithesis

Answer 11

Opposite person/event/action

Question 12

Chiasmus

Answer 12

Repeated in reverse order (X)

Question 13

Connotation

Answer 13

Defined based on experience

Question 14

Denotation

Answer 14

Literal meaning

Question 15

Epigraph

Answer 15

Inscriptions on a building, seen on statues

Question 16

Invective

Answer 16

Insulting, abusive

Question 17

Syllepsis

Answer 17

One word is applied to two others in different senses “I caught a train and a bad cold”

Question 18

Opposites

Answer 18

Baleful and ingenuous

Question 19

Similar

Answer 19

Circumspect and ingenuous

Question 20

Baleful

Answer 20

Threatening