Vocab II

Question 1

Palliate

Answer 1

to make something seem less serious, gloss over

Question 2

Panegyric

Answer 2

formal praise, eulogy, encomium

Question 3

Parsimonious

Answer 3

cheap, miserly

Question 4

Petrous

Answer 4

like a rock, hard, stony

Question 5

Picaresque

Answer 5

involving clever rogues or adventurers

Question 6

Plangent

Answer 6

thundering, pounding, resounding

Question 7

Prolix

Answer 7

long winded, verbose

Question 8

Proscribe

Answer 8

to outlaw, or banish, to ostracize

Question 9

Pusillanimous

Answer 9

cowardly, craven

Question 10

Ramify

Answer 10

to be divided or subdivided, branch out

Question 11

Rebus

Answer 11

riddle, a representation of words in pictures or symbols

Question 12

Recreant

Answer 12

coward, pusillanimous

Question 13

Refractory

Answer 13

stubborn, unmanageable, intractable

Question 14

Remonstrate

Answer 14

protest, object

Question 15

Repine

Answer 15

to feel or express dejection or discontent, to long for

Question 16

Rubric

Answer 16

heading, title or category

Question 17

Runic

Answer 17

mysterious or magical

Question 18

Saturnine

Answer 18

gloomy sullen or dark, morose

Question 19

Sententious

Answer 19

aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

Question 20

Sidereal

Answer 20

astral, relating to stars or constellations

Question 21

Sinecure

Answer 21

a position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income

Question 22

Salacious

Answer 22

faulty logic, fallacious reasoning

Question 23

Splenetic

Answer 23

bad tempered

Question 24

Stentorian

Answer 24

extremely loud and powerful

Question 25

Supercilious

Answer 25

disdainful, arrogant, haughty

Question 26

Tautolgy

Answer 26

a repetition or redundancy

Question 27

Tendentious

Answer 27

biased, showing marked tendencies

Question 28

Tyro

Answer 28

novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

Question 29

Venal

Answer 29

capable of being bought or bribed, mercenary, purchasable

Question 30

Virago

Answer 30

a loud domineering woman, a scold or a nag

Question 31

Volubility

Answer 31

fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language