Vocab 6-8

Question 1

avarice

Answer 1

excessive desire to aquire/possess wealth; combo of greed and stinginess
adj: avaricious n: avariciousness

Question 2

avid

Answer 2

extremely eager/anxious/enthusiastic

n: avidity adv: avidly

Question 3

badger

Answer 3

to tease/annoy w/ a constant string of petty torments

Question 4

baffle

Answer 4

to puzzle completely. to prevent from acheiving a goal

adj: baffling n: bafflement

Question 5

banal

Answer 5

made stale by constant use/repetition

n: banality adv: banally

Question 6

belligrent

Answer 6

adj: warring/engaged in war/warlike/hostile
n: a party engaged in a war
n: belligerence, belligerency adv: belligerently

Question 7

benign

Answer 7

gentle/kindly/wholesome/favorable

n: benignity adj: benignant adv: benignly

Question 8

bicker

Answer 8

to engage in petty quarelling

n: bickering

Question 9

bizarre

Answer 9

weird/fantastic

n: bizarreness

Question 10

bland

Answer 10

mild/gentle/lacking in interest or liveliness/flat

n: blandness adv: blandly

Question 11

bleak

Answer 11

desolate/windswept/bare/cold and gloomy/unpromising

n: bleakness

Question 12

blight

Answer 12

v: to check/destroy the growth of
n: something that impairs growth/causes ruin

Question 13

blithe

Answer 13

merry/carefree/overly unconcerned/reckless

n: blitheness adv: blithely

Question 14

boisterous

Answer 14

noisy, rowdy

n: boisterousness adv: boisterously

Question 15

bombastic

Answer 15

pompous, inflated in language

n: bombast

Question 16

boorish

Answer 16

rude, unrefined

n: boor, boorishness

Question 17

boycott

Answer 17

v: to refuse to buy as a way of protest
n: instance of such treatment

Question 18

brash

Answer 18

overly bold/hasty/thoughtless

n: brashness

Question 19

bravado

Answer 19

boastful/swaggering show of false bravery; false courage in general

Question 20

brusque

Answer 20

overly short/abrupt

n: brusqueness

Question 21

bungle

Answer 21

to mismanage, make a mess of

n: bungler

Question 22

bureaucracy

Answer 22

complicated system of admin agencies and officials; the officials themselves
n: bureaucrat adj: bureaucratic

Question 23

buttresss

Answer 23

n: a support/reinforcement
v: to support/reinforce

Question 24

cajole

Answer 24

to persuade/obtain by flattery/deceit

n: cajolery, cajoler

Question 25

callous

Answer 25

unfeeling/insensitive

n: callousness
adv: callously

Question 26

calumny

Answer 26

a false statement deliberately made up to injure a person

v: calumniate adj: calumnious

Question 27

candid

Answer 27

fair/impartial; frank/outspoken; informal/unposed

n: candor, candidness adv: candidly

Question 28

cantankerous

Answer 28

foul-tempered/quarrelsome

n: cantankerousness
adv: cantankerously

Question 29

captious

Answer 29

quick to find petty faults/raise trifling objections; overly demanding/fussy; intended to trap/confuse/show up

n: captiousness
adv: captiously

Question 30

catholic

Answer 30

broad/widely inclusive; general/universal; worldwide

n: catholicity