Vocab list 12

Question 1

Appreciable

Answer 1

Sufficient to be easily perceived, noticed, or measured.

Question 2

Callow

Answer 2

Lacking experience of life; immature.

Question 3

Exemplar, Exemplary

Answer 3

1: One that is worthy to be copied or imitated; a model.
2: A typical or standard specimen.
3: An ideal that serves as a pattern; an archetype.
3: A copy of a book or text.

Question 4

Maelstrom

Answer 4

1: A powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius.
2: A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs.

Question 5

Malapropism

Answer 5

The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word.

Question 6

Mollify

Answer 6

1: To pacify; to soothe or calm in temper or disposition; to assuage.
2: To soften; to reduce the rigidity of (as, to mollify the ground).

Question 7

Preternatural, Preternaturally

Answer 7

1. Existing outside of nature; differing from the natural; nonnatural.
2. Surpassing the usual or normal; extraordinary; abnormal.
3. Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means.

Question 8

Succor

Answer 8

(As noun) Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
(As verb) To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.

Question 9

Supine

Answer 9

1: Lying on the back, or with the face upward.
2: Inactive or passive, especially from indolence or indifference; mentally or morally lethargic.

Question 10

Voluptuary, Voluptuous

Answer 10

A person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.