Vocab 3

Question 1

Retrospect

Answer 1

Contemplation of the past, a survey of past time/event

Question 2

Putrid

Answer 2

In a state of foul decay/decomposition; rotten

Question 3

Obscure

Answer 3

Not clear in understanding; not expressing meaning clearly

Question 4

Edifice

Answer 4

A building, especially a large or imposing one

Question 5

Lucrative

Answer 5

Profitable, moneymaking

Question 6

Forlorn

Answer 6

Dreary, unhappy, sad, and lonely

Question 7

Macabre

Answer 7

Gruesome and horrifying; dealing with or representing death, especially in its grimmer aspects

Question 8

Lacerate

Answer 8

To tear roughly, mangle, distress mentally or emotionally, to wound

Question 9

Pretentious

Answer 9

Characterized by an assumption of dignity/importance, especially when exaggerated/undeserved

Question 10

Chalet

Answer 10

A kind of farmhouse, low with wide eves

Question 11

Patina

Answer 11

A film/covering spreading gradually on another substance, a calcification

Question 12

Uremic

Answer 12

Afflicted with uremia

Question 13

Incessant

Answer 13

Ceaseless, unending

Question 14

Inadvertence

Answer 14

The act it effect of inattention, an oversight

Question 15

Pathological

Answer 15

Caused by or involving disease, caused by a mentally disturbed condition

Question 16

Aberrant

Answer 16

Deviating from the right/usual/normal course

Question 17

Insensate

Answer 17

Without human feeling or sensitivity, cold; without sense of understanding

Question 18

Enigmatic

Answer 18

Perplexing, mysterious

Question 19

Etiology

Answer 19

Any study of causes/causation or casualty as in philosophy, biology, or physics

Question 20

Inimical

Answer 20

Adverse in tendency or effect, unfavorable, harmful, hostile

Question 21

Libido

Answer 21

All the instinctual energies derived from the id, sexual drive

Question 22

Dogmatic

Answer 22

Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner, opinionated

Question 23

Conflagration

Answer 23

A destructive fire, usually an extensive one

Question 24

Fetid

Answer 24

Having an offensive odor, stinking

Question 25

Parricide

Answer 25

The killing of a mother, father, or close relative

Question 26

Similitude

Answer 26

Likeness or resemblance

Question 27

Prodigious

Answer 27

Extraordinary in size, amount, extent; wonderful

Question 28

Noisome

Answer 28

Offensive, harmful to health

Question 29

Offal

Answer 29

The parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible; rubbish or garbage

Question 30

Pestilential

Answer 30

Pernicious; harmful; annoyingly troublesome

Question 31

Upbraid

Answer 31

To find fault with or reproach severely

Question 32

Expend

Answer 32

To use up, to pay out

Question 33

Carnage

Answer 33

The ski after of a great number of people as in battle

Question 34

Anguish

Answer 34

Excruciating or acute pain, distress, or suffering

Question 35

Depravity

Answer 35

the state or an instance of moral corruption