Vocab 5

Question 1

Prevaricate

Answer 1

to lie or deviate from the truth

Question 2

Pristine

Answer 2

fresh and clean

Question 3

Prodigal

Answer 3

lavish; wasteful

Question 4

Proliferate

Answer 4

to increase in number quickly

Question 5

Propitiate

Answer 5

to appease; doing something to win favor of

Question 6

Propriety

Answer 6

correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs

Question 7

Prudence

Answer 7

wisdom, caution, or restraint

Question 8

Pungent

Answer 8

sharp and irritating to the senses

Question 9

Quiescent

Answer 9

motionless

Question 10

Rarefy

Answer 10

to make thinner / sparser

Question 11

Repudiate

Answer 11

to reject the validity of

Question 12

Reticent

Answer 12

silent; reserved

Question 13

Satiate

Answer 13

to satisfy fully or overinduldge

Question 14

Soporific

Answer 14

to induce or cause sleep

Question 15

Specious

Answer 15

deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible

Question 16

Stolid

Answer 16

unemotional; lacking sensitivity

Question 17

Sublime

Answer 17

lofty or grand

Question 18

Tacit

Answer 18

done without using words

Question 19

Taciturn

Answer 19

silent; not talkative

Question 20

Tirade

Answer 20

long harsh speech or verbal attack

Question 21

Torpor

Answer 21

extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Question 22

Transitory

Answer 22

temporary; lasting a brief time