Vocab List 8

Question 1

Anarchy

Answer 1

N: Absence of political authority

Question 2

Acumen

Answer 2

N: Quickness and keenness of judgement or insight

Question 3

Atypical

Answer 3

Adj: Not conforming to type; unusual or irregular

Question 4

Bulbous

Answer 4

Adj: Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen

Question 5

Clandestine

Answer 5

Adj: kept or done in secret, often to conceal and illicit or improper purpose

Question 6

Essence

Answer 6

N: The intrinsic or indispensable properties that characterize or identify something

Question 7

Evince

Answer 7

V: To show or demonstrate clearly

Question 8

Flail

Answer 8

N: A manual threshing devise V: To beat or strike; to wave or swing vigorously

Question 9

Inculcation

Answer 9

N but V: To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition

Question 10

Ingratiate

Answer 10

V: To bring (oneself) into another’s favor, deliberately

Question 11

Lampoon

Answer 11

N: a piece of writing, a cartoon, etc., that mocks or makes fun of a well-known person or thing

Question 12

Misogynist

Answer 12

N/Adj: Hatred of women

Question 13

Myriad

Answer 13

N: A very large number

Question 14

Nomenclature

Answer 14

N: a system of names for things especially in science

Question 15

Obsequious

Answer 15

Adj: too eager to help or obey someone important

Question 16

Peripheral

Answer 16

Adj: not relating to the main or most important part

computers : connected to a computer but not an essential part of it

: of or relating to the area that is to the side of the area you are looking at

Question 17

Phlegmatic

Answer 17

Adj: not easily upset, excited, or angered

Question 18

Ponderous

Answer 18

Adj: very boring or dull

: slow or awkward because of weight and size

Question 19

Surreptitious

Answer 19

Adj: done in a secret way

Question 20

Chattel

Answer 20

N: something (such as a slave, piece of furniture, tool, etc.) that a person owns other than land or buildings

Question 21

Complaisance

Answer 21

disposition to please or to do what you have been asked or ordered to do

Question 22

Susceptible

Answer 22

Adj: easily affected, influenced, or harmed by something

: capable of being affected by a specified action or process