Vocab 6

Question 1

Oblique

Answer 1

ADJECTIVE
Diverging from a straight line or course, not striaghtforward.

Question 2

Pariah

Answer 2

NOUN
an outcast:
“they were treated as social pariahs.”

Question 3

Petulance

Answer 3

NOUN
Rudeness,irritability
“a slight degree of petulance had crept into his voice”

Question 4

Prosaic

Answer 4

ADJECTIVE
Plain,lacking liveliness
“prosaic language can’t convey the experience”

Question 5

Replete

Answer 5

Adjective
full,abundant
“sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death”

Question 6

Salient

Answer 6

ADJECTIVE
Significant, conspicuous
“One of the salient differences between nancy and goerge is that george is taller.

Question 7

Surfeit

Answer 7

NOUN
an excessive amount of something:
“a surfeit of food and drink”

Question 8

Tractable

Answer 8

ADJECTIVE
easily controlled
“tractable dogs that have had some obedience training”

Question 9

Undulate

Answer 9

VERB
To move in waves
“the surface of the liquid undulated gently” · “her body undulated to the thumping rhythm of the music”

Question 10

Vicarious

Answer 10

ADJECTIVE
experiencing through another
“I could glean vicarious pleasure from the struggles of my imaginary film friends”