Vocab #4

Question 1

Incredulous

Answer 1

Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true, skeptical

Question 2

Facetious

Answer 2

Meant to be humorous or funny, joking or jesting often inappropriately

Question 3

Elegiac

Answer 3

Expressing sorrow or lamentation; he delivered a funeral elegy. Beauty is lyrical, ugliness is elegiac

Question 4

Morose

Answer 4

Expressive of gloom, sullenly ill-humored

Question 5

Staid

Answer 5

Fixed, settled, or permanent, of settled or sedate character, not capricious

Question 6

Lyrical

Answer 6

Having the form and musical quality of a song expressing the writers emotions in a imaginative and beautiful way

Question 7

Petulant

Answer 7

Cranky irritable insolent or rude in speech or behavior

Question 8

Erudite

Answer 8

Characterized by great knowledge, learned or scholarly

Question 9

Jovial

Answer 9

Characterized by a hearty joyous humor cheerful and friendly

Question 10

Flippant

Answer 10

Frivolously disrespectful shallow or lacking in seriousness lacking proper respect or seriousness