vocab final

Question 1

clime

Answer 1

(n) climate

Question 2

jocund

Answer 2

(a) high spirits and liveliness

Question 3

sinew

Answer 3

(n) tendon

Question 4

complaisance

Answer 4

(n) to please or comply

Question 5

vale

Answer 5

(n) valley

Question 6

symmetry

Answer 6

(n) balanced proportions

Question 7

countenance

Answer 7

(n) expression or look

Question 8

fastidious

Answer 8

(a) very careful or detailed

Question 9

deign

Answer 9

(n) to not do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity

Question 10

impropriety

Answer 10

(n) the quality or state of being improper

Question 11

pedantic

Answer 11

(a) unimaginative or dull

Question 12

affront

Answer 12

(n) a great insult

Question 13

caprice

Answer 13

(n) a sudden change or impulsive action

Question 14

mien

Answer 14

(n) a person’s look, manner or demeanor

Question 15

felicity

Answer 15

(n) the quality or state of being happy or great happiness

Question 16

vex

Answer 16

(v) to irritate or annoy

Question 17

rapacity

Answer 17

(n) aggresive greed

Question 18

supercilious

Answer 18

(a) behaving or looking as though superior to others

Question 19

assiduous

Answer 19

(a) showing great care, attention and effort

Question 20

indolent

Answer 20

(a) laziness

Question 21

pecuniary

Answer 21

(a) something relating to or involving money

Question 22

effusive

Answer 22

(a) marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm

Question 23

alacrity

Answer 23

(n) cheerful readiness

Question 24

approbation

Answer 24

(n) approval or praise

Question 25

licentious

Answer 25

(a) lacking legal or moral restraints

Question 26

chagrin

Answer 26

(n) distress or embarrassment at having been humiliated

Question 27

petulant

Answer 27

(a) rude in speech or behavior

Question 28

repine

Answer 28

(v) to express discontent

Question 29

duplicity

Answer 29

(n) deceitfulness

Question 30

acrimony

Answer 30

(n) a bitterness or ill feeling

Question 31

imprudent

Answer 31

(a) not showing care for the consequences of an action

Question 32

profligate

Answer 32

(a) reckless, extravagent or wasteful

Question 33

ductility

Answer 33

(a) flexible

Question 34

milliner

Answer 34

(n) a hat maker

Question 35

impertinent

Answer 35

(a) not showing respect or being rude

Question 36

impute

Answer 36

(v) to lay the responsibility or blame

Question 37

officious

Answer 37

(a) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed

Question 38

solicitude

Answer 38

(n) care or concern for someone or something

Question 39

vicissitude

Answer 39

(a) a change of circumstances or fortune

Question 40

epistolary

Answer 40

(a) literary work in the form of letters

Question 41

dilatory

Answer 41

(a) slow to act

Question 42

connubial

Answer 42

(a) relating to marriage

Question 43

sanguine

Answer 43

(a) optimistic or positive

Question 44

sagacity

Answer 44

(a) showing good judgement