Vocab List #1

Question 1

abdicate

Answer 1

• To renounce or relinquish a throne, right power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner.

Question 2

acquiescence

Answer 2

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

Question 3

acrimonious

Answer 3

• caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior etc.

Question 4

anachronism

Answer 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.

Question 5

audacious

Answer 5

• Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless.

Question 6

baccalaureate

Answer 6

• 1. A bachelor’s degree 2. a religious service held at an educational institution, usually on the Sunday before commencement day.

Question 7

balderdash

Answer 7

• senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense

Question 8

belligerent

Answer 8

• warlike; given to waging war

Question 9

benevolent

Answer 9

• characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings.

Question 10

blather

Answer 10

• Foolish, voluble talk.

Question 11

captious

Answer 11

• apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; fault fighting; difficult to please.

Question 12

charlatan

Answer 12

• a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than they possess; fraud.

Question 13

circumlocution

Answer 13

• a roundabout or indirect way of speaking the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.

Question 14

commensurate

Answer 14

• corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree.

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

• the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.

Question 16

dalliance

Answer 16

• a trifling away of time; dawdling.

Question 17

decrepit

Answer 17

• weakened by old age; feeble; infirm.

Question 18

deign

Answer 18

• to think it appropriate to or in accordance with one’s dignity.

Question 19

delineate

Answer 19

• to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; to portray in words.

Question 20

disingenuous

Answer 20

• lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere.

Question 21

eclectic

Answer 21

• selecting or choosing from various sources.

Question 22

egalitarian

Answer 22

• asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.

Question 23

egregious

Answer 23

• extraordinary in some bad way.

Question 24

elucidate

Answer 24

• to make lucid or clear.

Question 25

enigma

Answer 25

- a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation.

Question 26

facetious

Answer 26

- not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

Question 27

fatuous

Answer 27

- foolish or insane , especially in an unconscious complacent manner.

Question 28

feckless

Answer 28

- ineffective; incompetent.

Question 29

flippant

Answer 29

Disrespectful

Question 30

furtive

Answer 30

- taken, done, used, etc.