Vocab Ch. 5-8

Question 1

acrimony

Answer 1

Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility.

Question 2

affinity

Answer 2

Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship.

Question 3

ambivalent

Answer 3

Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive.

Question 4

cessation

Answer 4

A stopping, either final or temporary.

Question 5

emaciated

Answer 5

Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny.

Question 6

enclave

Answer 6

A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory.

Question 7

engender

Answer 7

To bring into being, to produce.

Question 8

exacerbate

Answer 8

To make more severe, bitter, or violent.

Question 9

illicit

Answer 9

Not allowed, improper, or unlawful.

Question 10

indigenous

Answer 10

Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native.

Question 11

inexorable

Answer 11

Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless.

Question 12

infatuated

Answer 12

Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire.

Question 13

insatiable

Answer 13

Never satisfied; greedy.

Question 14

poignant

Answer 14

Painfully moving, affecting, or touching.

Question 15

proselytize

Answer 15

To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause.

Question 16

ameliorate

Answer 16

To make better; to become better; to improve.

Question 17

baleful

Answer 17

Expressing hatred or evil; harmful, ominous.

Question 18

berate

Answer 18

To criticize vigorously; to scold vehemently.

Question 19

circumvent

Answer 19

To avoid through craftiness.

Question 20

compunction

Answer 20

A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt.

Question 21

condone

Answer 21

To overlook or accept without punishment; to pardon or excuse.

Question 22

dimunitive

Answer 22

Very small; tiny.

Question 23

euphemism

Answer 23

A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant.

Question 24

expendable

Answer 24

Able to be used up and then discarded or replaced.

Question 25

heresy

Answer 25

The expression of shocking or unacceptable views.

Question 26

infirmity

Answer 26

Physical or mental weakness or defect.

Question 27

profane

Answer 27

1. To treat with scorn or irreverence. 2. Disrespectful of sacred things. 3. Not connected with religion; worldly.

Question 28

recompense

Answer 28

To pay or compensate.

Question 29

repast

Answer 29

Food and drink; a meal.

Question 30

servitude

Answer 30

A lack of freedom; forced labor.

Question 31

castigate

Answer 31

To punish by criticizing sharply; to berate.

Question 32

colloquial

Answer 32

Characterized by informal language.

Question 33

epitaph

Answer 33

The words carved on a tombstone in memory of the deceased.

Question 34

exodus

Answer 34

A mass departure.

Question 35

inter

Answer 35

To put in a grave; to bury.

Question 36

lacerate

Answer 36

To tear or cut roughly.

Question 37

largesse

Answer 37

The act of giving generously; gifts.

Question 38

obituary

Answer 38

A notice of someone’s death, such as in a newspaper, usually with a brief summary of that person’s life.

Question 39

omnivorous

Answer 39

1. Eating all kinds of food, including both animal and vegetable food. 2. Taking in everything available.

Question 40

permeate

Answer 40

To spread throughout; to pass through.

Question 41

rendition

Answer 41

An interpretation or translation; a performance.

Question 42

resurgence

Answer 42

A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence; a revival.

Question 43

stereotype

Answer 43

A generalization that is used to characterize a person without acknowledging individual differences.

Question 44

stipend

Answer 44

A regular and fixed amount of pay for work done or to help cover living or work expenses.

Question 45

subservient

Answer 45

Serving or acting in a subordinate manner; servile.

Question 46

adjacent

Answer 46

Near or next to; adjoining.

Question 47

beset

Answer 47

1. To surround or to attack repeatedly. | 2. To trouble or weigh down.

Question 48

cede

Answer 48

To give up or transfer, especially by treaty or formal agreement.

Question 49

circuitous

Answer 49

Roundabout; indirect.

Question 50

desultory

Answer 50

Proceeding or carried out in an aimless or random way.

Question 51

galvanize

Answer 51

To excite or arouse action.

Question 52

implement

Answer 52

1. A tool or instrument. | 2. To carry out.

Question 53

inconsequential

Answer 53

Lacking importance or worth; unable to make an impact; trivial.

Question 54

magnitude

Answer 54

Greatness of size, power, or influence.

Question 55

materialize

Answer 55

1. To become real or actual. | 2. To appear in physical form, especially suddenly.

Question 56

muster

Answer 56

1. A gathering, usually of military forces. | 2. To summon or call forth; to gather.

Question 57

prohibitive

Answer 57

Serving to restrain action or discourage use of.

Question 58

reminisce

Answer 58

To think or talk about one’s past.

Question 59

vanguard

Answer 59

The leading or forward position in a movement.

Question 60

visionary

Answer 60

1. A person who is given to ideas that are not currently realistic; a dreamer. 2. Able to see what might be accomplished in the future.