Vocab 8

Question 1

Verb - To frighten someone into doing something, using threats or violence

Answer 1

Cow

Question 2

Adjective - Showing a strong feeling

Answer 2

Ardent

Question 3

Noun - the action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong.

Answer 3

Penitence

Question 4

Adjective - able or likely to make mistakes.

Answer 4

Fallible

Question 5

Verb - to cause a change from a solid frozen state to a liquid or soft one, because of an increase in temperature

Answer 5

Thaw

Question 6

Noun - another word for sleepwalking

Answer 6

Somnambulism

Question 7

Noun: a new growth of activity or interest in something, especially art, literature, or music:
Opera is enjoying a long-awaited …………

Answer 7

renaissance

Question 8

Noun: small in numbers or amount, often spread over a large area:
a …….. population/audience
……. vegetation/woodland
a ……… beard
Information coming out of the disaster area is ….

Answer 8

sparse

Question 9

Noun:the act of strongly encouraging or trying to persuade someone to do something:
Despite the ………….. of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
……………. to.
The book is essentially an ……… to religious tolerance.

Answer 9

exhortation

Question 10

Adjective : not able to see clearly things that are far away /unable to understand a situation or the way actions will affect it in the future:

e.g.
Their ……. refusal to act now will undoubtedly cause problems in the future.

Answer 10

myopic