Vocab list #1

Question 1

To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, or responsibility

Answer 1

Abdicate

Question 2

The act or condition of giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance

Answer 2

Acquiescence

Question 3

Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, and behavior

Answer 3

Acrimonious

Question 4

Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time

Answer 4

Anachronism

Question 5

Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

Answer 5

Audacious

Question 6

Bachelors degree; commencement church service

Answer 6

Baccalaureate

Question 7

Senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense

Answer 7

Balderdash

Question 8

Warlike; given to waging war

Answer 8

Belligerent

Question 9

Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings

Answer 9

Benevolent

Question 10

Foolish, voluble talk

Answer 10

Blather

Question 11

Apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; fault finding; difficult to please

Answer 11

Captious

Question 12

A person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than they posses; fraud

Answer 12

Charlatan

Question 13

A roundabout or indirect way of speaking

Answer 13

Circumlocution

Question 14

Corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

Answer 14

Commensurate

Question 15

The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning

Answer 15

Connotation

Question 16

A trifling away of time; dawdling

Answer 16

Dalliance

Question 17

Weakened by old age; feeble; infirm

Answer 17

Decrepit

Question 18

To think it appropriate to or in accordance with ones dignity

Answer 18

Deign

Question 19

To trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially

Answer 19

Delineate

Question 20

Lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

Answer 20

Disingenuous

Question 21

Selecting or choosing from various sources

Answer 21

Eclectic

Question 22

Asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people

Answer 22

Egalitarian

Question 23

Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant

Answer 23

Egregious

Question 24

To make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain

Answer 24

Elucidate

Question 25

A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

Answer 25

Enigma

Question 26

Not meant to be taken seriously or literally

Answer 26

Facetious

Question 27

Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly

Answer 27

Fatuous

Question 28

Ineffective; incompetent; futile

Answer 28

Feckless

Question 29

Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness

Answer 29

Flippant

Question 30

Taken, done, used, surreptitiously or by stealth; secret

Answer 30

Furtive