Vocab Lesson #2

Question 1

Alchemist

Answer 1

1 who practices medieval chemistry or tries to change metals into gold

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

Device of using character symbolically to represent abstract idea

Question 3

Augury

Answer 3

Omen or prophecy

Question 4

Baseness

Answer 4

Quality of lacking higher values

Question 5

Bestow

Answer 5

To grant or give

Question 6

Conceit

Answer 6

Elaborate fanciful metaphor

Question 7

Confound

Answer 7

Cause 1 to be confused

Question 8

Contaminant

Answer 8

Something that causes impurity

Question 9

Covert

Answer 9

Secret, concealed

Question 10

Crave

Answer 10

To long for, want greatly

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

2 or more words that start w/ same letter

Question 12

Legacy

Answer 12

Gift by will, something handed down by an ancestor

Question 13

Mettle

Answer 13

Courage & fortitude

Question 14

Mirth

Answer 14

Amusement or laughter

Question 15

Muse

Answer 15

To think or meditate

Question 16

Mutinous

Answer 16

Engaged in revolting against authority

Question 17

Prodigious

Answer 17

Extraordinary in size, wonderful or abnormal

Question 18

Prodigy

Answer 18

Young person w/ extraordinary talent/ability

Question 19

Prostration

Answer 19

Extreme mental or emotional depression or exhaustion

Question 20

Replicate

Answer 20

Fold or bend